Part 10 (2/2)
”I can't That is unless some one meddled with the connections after I made theiant came in ”Koku, did you touch the wires?” asked Tom
”Well, Mr Too, when I aiting for the thief to coe”
”No, on the contrary, you did a fine thing, Koku I never would have daredany better, did just the right thing to ht current It is wonderful! Probably for any other purpose such a current would be useless, but it is just the thing for a great light”
”And why do you need such a powerful light, Tom?” asked Mr Swift
”Why, it is of extraordinary brilliancy, and it goes for several miles Look how plainly you can pick out the trees on nob's Hill,”
and he pointed to an elevation some distance away from the Swift homestead, across the woods and meadows
”I believe I could see a bird perched there, if there was one!”
exclaiht With larger carbons, better parobolic mirrors, a different resistance box, better connections, and a more powerful priht that would make objects more plainly visible than in the daytireat distance”
”But ould be the object of such a light, Tolers, dad, and catch them as they colers, Toain, and after slers?”
”Well, dad, I've had an offer, and I think I'll take it There's no money in it, but I think it isthat bothered ht This searchlight has solved the problem--that is if I can make a permanent invention of this accident, and I think I can”
”Oh, Toain,” said his father a bit sadly
”Don't worry, father I' far this time Only to the Canadian border, and that's only a few hundred miles But I want to see if I can cut the current off, and turn it on again When a thing happens by accident you never knohether you can get just exactly the saain”
Tom shut off the current froht died out Then he turned it on once htly as before He did this several times, and each time it was a success
”Hurrah!” cried Toreat searchlight!”
CHAPTER IX
”BEWARE OF THE COMET!”
”Well, Tom, what are you up to now?”
Ned Newton peered in theof the shop at his chum, as busy over a bench
”This is h you were going to give apictures? Say, do you reed a nickel to come in?
You were the clown, and--”