Hello! Joe!"
"Yes, I'm here, Frank; what more do you want to ask me?" came from miles
away; and in imagination he could see Officer Green crouched at the
telephone stand, as he remembered it at Police Headquarters in
Bloomsbury, feeling the importance of his relations with the public as a
genuine guardian of the peace.
"Why, it's of considerable importance to us to know in which direction
the aeroplane was going at the time this party sighted it," Frank went
on to say, "and I hope he told you that."
"Which he did without my asking," replied Officer Green, quickly,
"though you may be sure I would have done the same before letting him
leave, because I was on to the fact that it would be a pretty good
pointer."
"Oh! he thought of it himself, did he?" the young aviator shot back,
"well, that was pretty bright of him, and shows that he was a fellow to
take notice. And now, please tell me what he said about the direction in
which the biplane was headed, at the last instant he could see it far
away in the distance."
"Exactly southwest, Frank!"
This gave Frank a sudden jar, because it upset the theories he and Andy
had been forming concerning the escaping bank robbers. They had believed
the two men had gone almost directly north!
"Southwest, you say, Joe?" he asked, wishing to make assurance doubly
sure.
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