"Somebody broke into our hangar and workshop, and knocked things around at a great rate," Frank went on to say.

Seems like it might have been some other crowd that broke into our hangar, Frank!" "

Now, perhaps, he's got the crazy notion in his head that we might prosecute him either for what he tried to do up here to our hydroplane, or on account of breaking into our hangar, and doing a certain amount of damage, if the vandal was Percy Carberry.

This morning, early, after a bite to eat, I hurried over there to do some finishing touches and carry the thing out to apply to our broken plane, when to my astonishment I found that the shop had been broken into later in the night, as well as our hangar, where the aeroplane is usually kept.

"Hello! Chief Waller!" remarked Percy in his customary patronizing way, ignoring the presence of the Bird boys completely and purposely, of course; "I've come out after you, to get your assistance in trying to find the rascals who broke into my hangar some time last night, and ran away with my biplane!"

"I tell you my hangar was broken open last night, and I'm out a biplane that cost me a good round sum.

I remember now that I did see you pottering about your craft up there somewhere about the Quackenboss place, but I'd forgotten it till the Chief mentioned that you didn't have it in the hangar.

Then the aeroplane dropped lightly down close to the hangar back of the Bird home, where Andy and his father, the professor, lived, together with old Colonel Whympers, the veteran who used crutches or a cane on account of his rheumatism, brought on, he always declared, not by age, oh!

Larry had evidently set the pace, and it was a matter of the smaller lad keeping with him, or else being left behind, something Elephant never liked to have happen; so that he was unable to say even a single word for a full minute after arriving alongside the hangar.

" He allowed the motor to work at the reduced speed that it had been carrying on ever since quitting the home field, where the workshop and the hangar stood.

Where in the wide world did you come from, and who set our hangar afire?"

Jules remarked, as he discovered that the hangar had not burned to the ground as he expected, and after that he relapsed into gloomy silence.

Drifting along the cliff highway, which runs back of the fortifications that defend the port of San Francisco, you drop down past the dirigible hangar of the United States Army Flying Corps.

From the pilot's seat he could make out the airport, the hangar, the sprawling laboratory and research buildings and the manufacturing centers.

He went through it into a room outfitted as a small hangar.

At the far end of the hangar was an airlock.

Walking gingerly, Zip stepped out a little farther into the hangar.

"Magnificent!" He and Mark had followed Zip into the hangar.

They huddled close together and remained at the door while the Starmen strode across the floor of the hangar toward the spacecraft.

They lay horizontally on the floor of the hangar, all pointed toward the airlock.

His men scattered throughout the hangar.

More than a dozen doors opened into the hangar.

There was a hangar here, down by the docks, half a mile long.

So the hangar was never empty, and on the signature of a British officer the British soldiers might be sure of their bully beef, and fairly sure of a clean shirt or two when the old ones had been burnt by the order of a medical officer with a delicate nose and high ideals in a trench.

But he was responsible for the guarding of the Army's store-cupboardthat great hangar, half a mile longand for the discipline of a town full of soldiers who, without discipline, would make a merry hell of it, and for the orderly disposition of all the supplies at the base upon which the army in the field depends for its welfare.