Tom Swift and His Airline Express (Victor Appleton) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

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Victor Appleton. Tom Swift and His Airline Express (Victor Appleton) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

Tom Swift and His Airline Express, or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight

Literary Thoughts Edition presents. Tom Swift and His Airline Express, by Victor Appleton

CHAPTER I – SOMETHING QUEER

CHAPTER II – WAITING IN THE DARK

CHAPTER III – MASKED MEN

CHAPTER IV – A NIGHT OF WORRY

CHAPTER V – A CRASH

CHAPTER VI – AGAIN A PRISONER

CHAPTER VII – THE PLOT

CHAPTER VIII – MR. DAMON’S NEWS

CHAPTER IX – KOKU’S ALARM

CHAPTER X – TOM’S PLIGHT

CHAPTER XI – THE EXPLOSION

CHAPTER XII – A DANGEROUS SEARCH

CHAPTER XIII – AN OMINOUS MESSAGE

CHAPTER XIV – THE AIRLINE EXPRESS

CHAPTER XV – A TRIAL FLIGHT

CHAPTER XVI – JASON JACKS

CHAPTER XVII – THE AIRLINE STARTS

CHAPTER XVIII – CHICAGO

CHAPTER XIX – DENVER

CHAPTER XX – A MOUNTAIN STORM

CHAPTER XXI – THE GOLDEN GATE

CHAPTER XXII – KENNY BREAKS DOWN

CHAPTER XXIII – ANOTHER CAPTURE

CHAPTER XXIV – TROUBLES AND WORRIES

CHAPTER XXV – A GLORIOUS FINISH

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by Victor Appleton

Darkness was slowly gathering over the landscape, shrouding in velvety black the trees which were faintly stirring in the summer breeze. Tom, following an old-time cowpath across the green meadow on his way home from town, topped a little rise and caught a glimpse of the high board fence surrounding the Swift Construction Company’s plant which he and his father had built up after many years of hard work.

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“Whew!” shrilly whistled Tom. “I forgot all about Mary. I promised to call on her to-night.”

“Sure you did,” laughed Ned. “And I’ve got a date with Helen. You said we’d go over together and – – ”

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