Quest for the King's Crown by Robert Vernon

Author:Robert Vernon [Vernon, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian / Action & Adventure, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
ISBN: 9781684283842
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Published: 2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Mike Fowler feared he had arrived too late. He could hear muffled yells and banging coming from inside the Lady Liberty. Thick smoke poured out of the door. He was trying to decide what to do when the small front hatch of the B-17 dropped open and Ben and Spence spilled out.

“Spence! Ben!” Mike ran to their side. “What’s going on?”

“The tall stranger. He’s in there, Mike!” said Spence, trying to catch his breath.

“Did he get the map?” Mike asked.

Ben hung his head. “I panicked in all the excitement and forgot the computer. It’s still in there.”

“I don’t think I got all the photos either,” Spence admitted.

“We can’t let him get a copy of the map.” Mike waved for them to follow. “Come on!”

“No way!” Ben shook his head. “I’m not going back in there. That’d be like going into a cave with an angry bear!”

“Me neither,” Spence said.

“Okay, you two go get help! Call Sheriff Smitty from the diner.” Mike studied the B-17. “I’m gonna see if I can somehow sneak in and get our stuff.”

As Ben and Spence ran to the diner, Mike tried to come up with a plan. If the stranger chased after Ben and Spence, maybe he was still in the front of the plane.

Mike snuck up to the B-17 and slowly stuck his head inside. The smoke was clearing, but Mike couldn’t see any sign of the man. He could see that quite a skirmish had occurred. A patch of white flour revealed large handprints, and a set of white footprints led through the radio room and to the closed curtains of the bomb bay that doubled as their darkroom.

Mike spotted Spence’s laptop where he had left it near the fax machine. He quietly entered the plane and snuck toward the laptop. He just about had it in his hands when he noticed that the darkroom curtain was moving.

Apparently, the intruder had already found Spence’s photos of the map. Mike knew he had to get those photos out of there somehow.

In his ongoing care for the Lady Liberty, Pop Fowler made sure that the B-17’s fire extinguishers were always fully charged. Mike unclipped one of the extinguishers from its cradle and quietly approached the curtain. He could hear movement on the other side. Gathering all the courage he could muster, he counted to three and pulled back the curtain.

There, on the other side, stood the tall stranger looking down at Spence’s photographs. The man’s head snapped up just in time to be hit with the full force of the extinguisher’s blast. The stranger yelled and dropped the pictures in order to shield himself from the spray. Mike grabbed up the photos and gave the man one last shot from the extinguisher for good measure. With both the laptop and the photos now in his possession, Mike ran down the aisle of the B-17 as fast as he could. He half expected a large hand to grab him from behind at any moment.

When he reached the door, he couldn’t help but look back.

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