Complete List of Stories for Boys by HERBERT STRANG
ADVENTURES OF DICK TREVANION, THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY ROCHESTER, THE A GENTLEMAN-AT-ARMS A HERO OF LIEGE A THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR AIR PATROL, THE AIR SCOUT, THE BARCLAY OF THE GUIDES BLUE RAIDER, THE BOYS OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE BRIGHT IDEAS BURTON OF THE FLYING CORPS CARRY ON CRUISE OF THE GYRO-CAR, THE DAN BOLTON'S DISCOVERY FIGHTING WITH FRENCH FLYING BOAT, THE FRANK FORESTER HEIR OF A HUNDRED KINGS, THE HUMPHREY BOLD JACK BROWN IN CHINA JACK HARDY KING OF THE AIR KOBO LONG TRAIL, THE LORD OF THE SEAS MARTIN OF OLD LONDON MOTOR SCOUT, THE NO MAN'S ISLAND OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, THE ONE OF CLIVE'S HEROES PALM TREE ISLAND RIDERS, THE RIVER PIRATES, THE ROB THE RANGER ROUND THE WORLD IN SEVEN DAYS SAMBA SETTLERS AND SCOUTS SULTAN JIM SWIFT AND SURE THROUGH THE ENEMY'S LINES TOM BURNABY TOM WILLOUGHBY'S SCOUTS TRUE AS STEEL WINNING HIS NAME WITH DRAKE ON THE SPANISH MAIN WITH HAIG ON THE SOMME YOUNG JACK
[Illustration: HE CLUTCHED AT THE GRAPNEL, LET GO HIS HOLD OF THE MAST, AND SWUNG CLEAR. Frontispiece--see page 79]
KING OF THE AIR
Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane
By
HERBERT STRANG
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY W. E. WEBSTER
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
Copyright 1907 by the Bobbs-Merrill Company in the United States of America.
Published 1907.
Reprinted 1908, 1909, 1911, 1913 (twice), 1915 (twice), 1917, 1918, 1919 (twice), 1920, 1923, 1929
Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk.
CONTENTS
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: King of the Air by Herbert Strang
- 2: John Greatorex was very wealthy
- 3: Greatorex crawled from under his new car
- 4: Greatorex after some ten minutes
- 5: Greatorex stopped it and turned round
- 6: Greatorex and Tom Dorrell by Five Oaks Bridge
- 7: Thomas Dorrell This 'ere place belongs to Mr
- 8: Dorrell and tell him you're here
- 9: Ve can supply anyzink soft goots
- 10: And given it up entirely to young Dorrell
- 11: Turning his back on the workshop
- 12: Greatorex looked a little puzzled
- 13: Greatorex's chief chemist pointed out
- 14: The wings were planes of lath strengthened with aluminium
- 15: Hanged if it isn't an aeroplane
- 16: In half a minute Raymond Oliphant gave it up
- 17: And Langside hasn't the grit to prevent it
- 18: Ingleton will be either released or dead
- 19: The first for not rescuing Sir Mark Ingleton
- 20: Greatorex used different terms
- 21: Greatorex was very emphatic on the point of secrecy
- 22: The airship was divided into sections
- 23: The engineer called up the new stoker
- 24: He said to Captain Bodgers at his side
- 25: I could choose my own altitude
- 26: He was the slighter of the two
- 27: Could increase the speed of the ascensional screw
- 28: Greatorex as Tom stepped out of the car
- 29: For soon afterwards the saddlemaker died mysteriously
- 30: But Salathiel smiled at each rebuff
- 31: Ingleton never invented anything
- 32: At the suggestion of Captain Bodgers
- 33: We can land you at Rabat in a day or two
- 34: But it happened that Timothy Ball
- 35: Dorrell wants some one to help him
- 36: Abdul knew the country thoroughly
- 37: Luckily the hills are covered with mist
- 38: Oliphant followed these directions
- 39: But Abdul declined the food offered him
- 40: Ingleton will be pretty well guarded
- 41: Abdul explained that was the Moorish fashion
- 42: Extended right round the kasbah
- 43: And undoubtedly worthy of the attention of Hamadi his master
- 44: Dirty passages that led from the kasbah to the outer wall
- 45: And he reeled dizzily to the ground
- 46: And talking it over with Abdul
- 47: And went aboard with Oliphant and Abdul
- 48: Tom had just distinguished the figure of Salathiel
- 49: They had probably heard the whirr of the machinery
- 50: We'll swing round and go back for Master Salathiel
- 51: Abdul understood what was required of him
- 52: Salathiel for a time absolutely refused to mount
- 53: But when Oliphant made a movement towards his carbine
- 54: With the intention of dropping obliquely upon the kasbah
- 55: But Abdul was unable to say which was which
- 56: With a significant look Abdul pointed downwards
- 57: He softly summoned Abdul to descend
- 58: Schwab did not recognize him in his Moorish dress
- 59: Schwab panting and ejaculating behind them
- 60: The trapdoor was let down and bolted
- 61: Shouted Abdul at the top of his voice
- 62: Schwab can pile some of them on the trap
- 63: And hurried back to the kasbah
- 64: Followed by Oliphant and the Moor
- 65: Zat vill be chance for Schlagintwert
- 66: I have enough gombany of ze Mohrs
- 67: Then followed Oliphant and the envoy into the car
- 68: Said Sir Mark in a low tone to Oliphant
- 69: I was indeed on my way to visit the Sultan
- 70: And ordered his followers to dismount also
- 71: His pace becomes slower and slower
- 72: Greatorex presently calmed down
- 73: The Moor made a rush along the wall
- 74: The party swarmed through into the kasbah
- 75: Greatorex emptied his pockets of small coin
- 76: Zen zere shall be business for Schlagintwert
- 77: Schwab became more and more anxious
- 78: Abdul surmised that the sheikh was trying an experiment
- 79: And stood behind him when Schwab
- 80: And Abdul knew that the enemy had been seen
- 81: Oliphant sat with his knees up
- 82: Hovering directly over the roof of the kasbah
- 83: And the airship glided slowly to rest on the plateau
- 84: He set the ascensional screws in motion
- 85: The sheikh was far ahead of his men
- 86: It is not viz me custom to go so long vizout food
- 87: Schwab had heard nothing of this
- 88: Zere had I at least enough to eat
- 89: Schwab bemoaned the lack of a pipe and beer
- 90: To be tore in piece by tousand vile Mohrs
- 91: Schwab having dropped nearly a hundred yards behind
- 92: Captain Bodgers with Herr Schwab
- 93: And ze champagne vould slop over
- 94: Schlagintwerts shall not buy it