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"No, you can't," Teddy answered. "Sorry," he added as he saw the look of disappointment on his sister's face. "But we're going to fly our planes and we don't want any girls."
"One of our planes might get tangled in your hair," said Dick.
"Oh, is that so?" snapped Lucy. "And one of 'em might get lost, too! Then maybe you'll be glad to have me help hunt it like I did the time Teddy's plane was lost before. I found it then."
"Did she?" asked Joe, looking at Lucy. Her cheeks were flushed because of a little excitement.
"Yes, she did--sort of," Teddy rather grudgingly admitted.
"Oh, Teddy Benson!" exclaimed his sister, stamping her foot on the back porch. "How can you talk that way? You know I found your lost plane all by myself--in the woods."
"Well, there aren't going to be any lost planes today," said Teddy. "So you can't come. Sorry. Come on, fellows!" he added. "The wind may die out."
The three boys hurried to Mason's meadow. Lucy, left behind, looked after them a moment. Then she said:
"I'll go get Margie Kelly. We can go to Mason's meadow if we want to. There's no fence around it."
Lucy hurried to the home of her chum, Dick's sister. The three boys were soon at the meadow. On the far side was a patch of woods. Pointing to this Dick said to Joe:
"Teddy expects his plane to fly there."
"I don't expect it," Teddy said. "But it might. Come on now. Get ready. The plane that goes the farthest wins the race."
"And what's the prize?" asked Joe.
"The loser has to treat him and the other fellow to ice cream," Teddy decided.
"That means I've got to treat," sighed Joe. "Well, let's go!"
The rubber motors were wound up. The boys held their planes poised for a start. They stood with their backs to the wind, on the edge of the meadow farthest from the woods.
"All ready?" Teddy called.
"All ready!" his chums answered.
"Let go!"
The three little planes were launched into the air.
For a short distance all three were about even. Then Teddy's began pulling ahead. Close behind it was Dick's. Joe's plane was lagging and soon began to descend.
"I might have known it!" sighed the red-haired lad. "I'll buy the ice cream."
Teddy and Dick did not answer. They were running after their planes. Then, Dick's began to falter. Teddy's was sailing on full and fast. It rose on a long slant.
"Say! I believe Teddy's plane will reach the woods!" cried Joe. He had picked up his craft from the grass.
"Well, it's going better than I thought it would," Dick had to admit.
Then came a puff of wind. That and the power in Teddy's plane sent it more swiftly toward the woods. Dick's plane, having reached the limit of its flight, began coming down.
"Teddy wins!" cried Joe.
"Yes! But look! His plane is sailing right into the woods!" cried Dick. "You've done it, Teddy! I didn't think you could, but you did. There goes your plane into the woods!"
"I wish it hadn't!" cried Teddy, running after it.
"Why?" asked Joe.
"Because I think it will be lost. It went in the woods right near that deep gully. I guess my plane is lost, fellows!"
FOUND
Reaching an open glade in the meadow, where the grass was shorter than in other places, Dick and Joe put down the planes they had been carrying.
"I guess they'll be all right," said Dick.
"Why are you leaving your planes there?" asked Teddy, looking back over his shoulder as he headed toward the gully in the woods.
"So they won't get all banged up on trees and bushes when we help you hunt for yours," Joe answered.
"If we carried them through the woods there wouldn't be much left of 'em," added Dick.
"That's so," Teddy agreed. "We may have to dodge into some tough places, looking for my lost plane. It's swell of you fellows to come and help me," he added.
"As if we wouldn't!" exclaimed Dick.
"Fine chums we'd be if we didn't," added Joe. "Well, Teddy, you won the race."
"But I didn't expect my plane to go so far," said the tall lad. "It's got a dandy motor. I hope I can find it."
"Oh, we'll find it!" declared Dick. Yet as he and the two other boys looked at the thick woods they began to have feelings of doubt. The place where Teddy's plane had disappeared amid the trees was a particularly dense part of the forest.
While the three are starting their search for the lost plane, a moment may be taken to let our new readers know something about Teddy Benson who has had many mysterious adventures. Now he was about to have another.
The first book of this series, "Teddy and The Mystery Dog" introduces our young hero. He and his sister and chums had many strange experiences with a certain dog. Later they were involved in a mystery about a monkey, a cat, a parrot and a pony.
Teddy and his chums lived in the small city of Oakdale, near Hemlock River. There was a small lake nearby. The boys had many good times on the river and lake, or in the country near these bits of water.
Summer had come, the long vacation from school was at hand and one of the first bits of fun Teddy and his chums started was the model airplane race. They planned to have others if the first was successful.
"But if I don't find my plane I guess I won't go in any more races," Teddy said somewhat gloomily. He was leading his chums into the woods.
"Can't you build another?" asked Dick.
"Oh, I guess so," Teddy replied. "I plan to, of course, if I get into the gas motor class. But first I want to find this dandy little plane that's lost. I wish I hadn't wound those rubber bands so tight."
"Still, you know what your plane can do when it has to," comforted Dick.
"I never saw a better flight," added Joe. "I thought for a while it was going to soar right over the woods."
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