The Maid And The Mountains
Written by
W. E. Johns
Copyright 1933
2nd of 13 stories in . It was published in Popular Flying Magazine, August 1933. It was republished as Biggles And The Blue Orchid in The Modern Boy #378, May 4, 1935, combined with the next story. It was again published under its current name in Every Boy's Annual 1952
Flying to Bolivia to visit his old fellow squadron leader, Wilkes, who is an instructor for that country's air force, Biggles learns that the daughter of the country's President has been kidnapped by a rebel leader. He decides he will rescue her, just because.