Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane

"[...]be a big feather in your cap to help out the people who are hiring you." "That's what I want to do, if I can," replied Dave, as he left the place. The youth went straight to the Aegis hangar, where he found Grimshaw tinkering over a broken airplane wing. Mr. King had a desk in one corner of what he called his office room. Dave was free to use this at all times. He opened it now, and for ten minutes was busy with some railroad time tables he found there. Then he consulted an aero guide map. Grimshaw watched him from under his shaggy eyebrows, but said nothing until Dave got up from the desk, buttoned his coat and prepared to face the storm again. "What's the trouble, Dashaway?" he asked. "Why, Mr. Grimshaw?" inquired Dave, wishing to evade direct questioning.[...]".