human
Fish! she replied mockingly.
gpt
Poor fish!
human
You didn't see Linda or Louise--in the course of your trip, did you?
gpt
Linda--Louise--?
human
Yes. The two girls who fly in an Arrow Pursuit. They've been missing for two days and Miss Carlton and Mrs. Haydock are almost crazy. We're all worried too, only we try not to be.
gpt
Too bad, murmured Miss Hulbert.
human
But they really shouldn't be flying in this sort of weather. They haven't had the experience.
gpt
How else would they get it?
human
Short trips, answered Bess.
gpt
It's foolish people like them who do harm to aviation. Make the public think it's so dangerous.
human
How do you know they went on a long trip?
gpt
Oh--er--I don't. I only supposed they did.
human
Yes, we're all afraid of that. They were last heard of from Plattsburg--the twenty-seventh.
gpt
And this is the thirtieth, remarked Bess, absently.
human
I wonder if that wreck that was reported in the early afternoon papers could have been their plane.
gpt
What wreck?
human
The charred wreck of a plane was found by an aviator named Ted Mackay. Up on the border, between New York state and Canada.
gpt
Ted Mackay! repeated Dot.
human
That's Linda's friend--the one who rescued her before.
gpt
Well, he didn't rescue her today, asserted Bess.
human
There were no bodies in the plane. But then it was almost completely destroyed.