Part 1 (2/2)
”A week! Say, one day would be enough I should think”
”Youafraid Andy will do you some harm,” exclaimed Ned ”Out with it, Tom”
”Well, I'll tell you what it is, Ned,” and Tom led his chum inside the shop, in front of which the two lads had been talking It was a shop where the young inventor constructed many of his marvelous machines, aircraft, and instruments of various sorts
”Do you think soht I' any chances But the reason I want to be especially careful that Andy Foger doesn't spy on any of my inventions is that at last I have perfected my noiseless airshi+p motor!”
”You have!” cried Ned, for he knew that his chuive out no sound, no reat, Toet even a peep at it”
”Especially as I haven't it fully patented,” went on the young inventor He had met with many failures in his efforts to perfect this motor, which he intended to install on one of his airshi+ps ”If any one saw the finished parts noouldn't take the aith the noise”
”How do you do it?” asked Ned, for he realized that his chum had no secrets from him
”Well, it's too complicated to describe,” said Toasolene into thedevice, and an improved muffler I think I could start my new airshi+p in front of the most skittish horse, and he wouldn't stir, for the racket wouldn't wake a baby It's going to be great”
”What are you going to do with it, when you get it all co to be soether, and installed, and in that ti uess I won't worry about him”
”No, I wouldn't I'd like to see the motor run”
”You can, in a day or so, but just now I need a certain part to attach to the sparker, and I had to send to town for it Koku has gone after it”
”What, that big giant servant? HeHe doesn't realize how much muscle he has”
”No, that's so Well, while we're waiting for hiot”
The two lads were soon in the Swift hoe old-fashi+oned residence, in the suburbs of Shopton Toht out the books, and he and his chuaveinventor, handing Ned a bulky volume
”'Bless my bookmark!' as Mr Damon hih ”That's a dandy But Mr Daive you THIS one,” and Ned picked up a dainty volume of verse ”'To Tom Swift, with the best wishes of Mary--'” but that was as far as he read, for Torabbed the book away, and closed the cover over the flyleaf, which bore souess whose hand it was
”Wow! Tohed Ned
”Oh, cut it out,” begged his chuot it last Christ, Ned,” and to cover his confusion To ; eh,” reive the picture caood views,” ad inventoron some trips in my noiseless airshi+p
hello! here coot what I wanted”
A iant, one of thoht away froate He stopped to speak to Mr Swift, To out soe wheel barrow filled with the blooms
Mr Swift, as an inventor of note, had failed in his health of late, and the doctor had recohted in gardening, and was at it all day
”Look!” suddenly cried Ned, pointing to the giant Then Toh, Koku picked up Mr Swift gently and set him on a board that extended across the front part of the wheel barrow
Then, as easily as if it was a pound weight, the big man lifted Mr