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Howard R Garis. Tom Swift and his Sky Train, or, Overland through the Clouds
Tom Swift and his Sky Train, or, Overland through the Clouds
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A CRACK-UP
CHAPTER II. A WONDERFUL INVENTION
CHAPTER III. TURNED DOWN
CHAPTER IV. SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER V. HOT WATER
CHAPTER VI. A STRANGE REQUEST
CHAPTER VII. THE PARACHUTE JUMPER
CHAPTER VIII. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER IX. HOT WORDS
CHAPTER X. ANXIOUS DAYS
CHAPTER XI. A GIANT’S ANGER
CHAPTER XII. MIXED ORDERS
CHAPTER XIII. DISQUIETING NEWS
CHAPTER XIV. RUSHING WORK
CHAPTER XV. A LITTLE VICTIM
CHAPTER XVI. STRANGE WORDS
CHAPTER XVII. A MIGHTY SPLASH
CHAPTER XVIII. MORE SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER XIX. FAILURE
CHAPTER XX. THE PRIZE OFFER
CHAPTER XXI. A BOTTLE OF ACID
CHAPTER XXII. READY TO GO
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RACE
CHAPTER XXIV. THROUGH STORM PERILS
CHAPTER XXV. PORT AT LAST
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Howard R. Garis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Certainly Mary doesn’t use much of it,” Tom said. “She’s as fine a little managing wife as a crazy inventor like myself could have. But the cash goes in experiments like this one, Ned. I have spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars getting my sky train in shape for a trial, and it will be a long time, even after it proves successful, before any cash from it will be coming in. It has been that way with a lot of my jiggers—the giant cannon, the war tank, the talking pictures, the electric locomotive and other machines. I spent millions on them and some millions came in. Then I spent more on new dinguses and so it goes. And I need a tidy sum now, Ned, to perfect this sky train, so I can pick up gliders in the air as well as release them when the towing airplane is in full flight. But I’ll do it! So if old what’s-his-name wants to know where our money goes, and where that which he is going to lend us will go, tell him in useful experiments. A lot of them fail, that’s what runs the cost up.”
“I’ll tell him, but I don’t know that I can convince him, Tom. You had better see him yourself.”
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