CHAPTER 24OFF THE AUTOMATIC
Leafing through the magazine and facing the desperate problem of recovering the Stratoliner from these gangsters, Peggy had remembered her ability to remain conscious an unusually long time in the thin air of the substratosphere.
The entire success of her scheme depended on this first important step. The window must break with her first blow or these men would shoot her mercilessly.
Her rage and fear had given her superhuman strength. The window shattered with a resounding crash.
As the bitterly cold air blasted through the broken window, Peggy hoped in an odd, detached manner, that the heavy vacuum coffee pot wouldn’t strike some unsuspecting person miles below.
The ear-splitting smash of the metal on the glass and the roar of the cold air drowned the angr
