: A Cruise in the Sky; or The Legend of the Great Pink Pearl by Sayler H L Harry Lincoln Riesenberg Sidney H Illustrator - Aeronautics Juvenile fiction; Florida Description and travel Juvenile fiction

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A Cruise in the Sky OR The Legend of the Great Pink Pearl

A FLORIDA METROPOLIS

All afternoon the train had been following the picturesque shore of the Indian River, in Florida. The snow and ice of the north had long since disappeared. Summer heat increased as the train sped southward. Most of the seats in the car were filled with tourists on their way to Palm Beach. Two persons, both from their looks and actions, were not destined to that aristocratic winter resort.

In one of the sections were a woman and a boy. The latter, about sixteen years old, was begrimed with dust and smoke, but there was a snap in his eyes. In the fast gathering dusk, he sat, his nose mashed against the window and his eyes shaded by his hands, as if anxious to catch every detail of the strange land through which the train was flying.

The woman glanced out of the window now and then in a nervous manner, and, at last, when it was almost wholly dark and the porter had begun to turn on the electric lights, she touched the boy on the shoulder.

"Look at your watch again, Andrew. We must be almost there."

As the boy drew out a watch , his lips puckered.

"Twenty minutes!" he exclaimed, almost in alarm. "We're due at Valkaria at 8:15. It's five minutes of eight now."

"O, dear, I hope they won't forget to stop," said the woman, with increasing nervousness. "Hadn't you better speak to the conductor again? I don't know what we'd do if we were carried past our station."

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