[Gutenberg 49734] • The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents

The Aztec had been due to sail at noon that day, as the Blue Peter floating at her mainmast head had signified. Here it was, however, a good hour since the towering mass of skyscrapers on the opposite side of the river had blossomed, as if by magic, into a jewel-spangled mountain of light and her steam winches were still clanking and the 'longshore men, under the direction of the screech of the boss stevedore's whistle, as hard at work as ever. No wonder her passengers fretted at the delay. Not the least eager among them to see the ship's restraining lines cast off were Frank and Harry Chester, known to the public, through the somewhat hysterical p�ans of the Daily Press and the rather more dignified, but not less enthusiastic articles of the technical and scientific reviews, as the BOY AVIATORS.