Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple is a lovely, romantic tale about Diane Westfall, a young farmer in town who meets a man who has crash-landed his airplane in the lake nearby. Excerpt: "Are you aware," inquired the girl, biting her lip, "that you're trespassing?" "Lord, no!" exclaimed the aviator. "You don't mean it. Have you by any chance a reputable rope anywhere about you?" "No," said Diane maliciously, "I haven't. As a rule, I do go about equipped with ropes and hooks and things to—rescue trespassing hydro-aviators, but—" she regarded him thoughtfully. "Do you like to float about and smoke?"

Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple is a lovely, romantic tale about Diane Westfall, a young farmer in town who meets a man who has crash-landed his airplane in the lake nearby. Excerpt: "Are you aware," inquired the girl, biting her lip, "that you're trespassing?" "Lord, no!" exclaimed the aviator. "You don't mean it. Have you by any chance a reputable rope anywhere about you?" "No," said Diane maliciously, "I haven't. As a rule, I do go about equipped with ropes and hooks and things to—rescue trespassing hydro-aviators, but—" she regarded him thoughtfully. "Do you like to float about and smoke?"

Excerpt from Diane of the Green Van The aviator met her astonished glance with one of laughing deference even as she marveled at his genial air Of staunch philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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