"We'll
try a high flight and if they can pick up a trail in the air, and come
up to us, they're good ones!"
He ran to the pilot house, and set the elevation rudder at its limit.
Meanwhile the spies were working frantically over their motor, trying to
get it is shape for the pursuit. But soon they realized that this was
out of the question, for the Falcon was far away, every moment going
higher and higher, until she was lost to sight beyond the clouds.
"I guess they'll have their own troubles now," remarked Ned. "We've seen
the last of them."
"Don't be too sure," spoke the Russian. We may have them after us again.
We're over the land of the Czar now, and they'll have everything their
own way. They'll want to stop me at any cost."
"Do you think they suspect that we're after the platinum?" asked Tom.
"They may, for they know my brother and I were the only ones who ever
located it, though unless I get in the exact neighborhood I'd have
trouble myself picking it out. I remember some of the landmarks, but my
brother is better at that sort of work than I am. But I think what they
are mostly afraid of is that I have some designs on the life of, say one
of the Grand Dukes, or some high official. But I am totally opposed to
violent measures," went on Mr. Petrofsky. "I believe in a campaign of
education, to gain for the down-trodden people what are their rights.
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