Save the story for me, Bob Russell
of the Comet."
Handing his card to the boys with a cheery "So long!" he was gone.
The boys felt a little relieved. They had done what they could to
protect the interests of their patrons and themselves by keeping
their mission a strict secret. So far as Ned knew, the only persons
who had knowledge of what they were doing and where they were going
were his mother and sister, Alan's family, and Major Honeywell and
Senor Oje. Not even Elmer Grissom's parents knew where he was
bound--it was sufficient for them to know that he was with Ned. Of
course the railway people knew where the car was to stop. Beyond
these it was necessary for no one else to know what was being done--
not even the manufacturers who made the balloon, the engine and
their precious gas. But what the young air navigators desired and
what Bob Russell wanted were two different things.
CHAPTER VII
THE MAKING OF A NEWSPAPER STORY
Let us see whether the young reporter was baffled by the reticence
of the secretive boys.
"Every one to his trade," murmured Bob Russell, as he hastened from
Ned and Alan, "and now, me to mine.
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