CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE.
SKYRIDER "HAS FLEW"! Just at dawn the humming of the airplane motor woke Mary V.She sat up in bed and listened, a little fear gripping at her heart; a fear which she fought with her reason, her hopes, and all her natural optimism.

Surely Johnny would not be foolish enough to attempt a flight that morning.

He must be just trying put the motor.

He would know he was not yet in condition to bear any physical or nervous strain, sick as he had been.

Of course he wouldn't be so selfish as to make a flight without so much as asking her if she would like to go with him.