Part 19 (1/2)

”Oh, I forgot about Mary Nestor being there!” laughed Mr Daed the youth in the ribs

”It isn't altogether Mary Though I a to see her,” Toetting up I can capture several birds in the sa”

This pleased Mr Da over the road It was just outside Newmarket that they saw an automobile stalled at the foot of a hill which they topped It needed but a glance to show that there was serious trouble As Mr Da from the other machine And, as they did so, flames burst out of the rear of the stalled machine

”Fire! Fire!” cried Mr Damon, rather needlessly it would seem, as any one could see the blaze

”Another chance!” exclai down between his feet for a wrapped object he had placed in Mr Da!” he cried ”The twoput it over on Mr Baxter Their car is blazing Here's where I get a chance to heap coals of fire on their heads!”

CHAPTER XVI

VIOLENT THREATS

Tom Swift's companion in the automobile was sufficiently acquainted with this old expression to understand readily what it meant And as he directed his car as close as was safe to the blazing car, Mr Da to put out that fire for theri out of wrapping paper a metal cylinder with a short nozzle on one end and a handle on the other It was, obviously, a hand fire extinguisher of a type familiar to all

”Wait Tom, I'll slow up a little more,” said Mr Damon, as he applied the brakes with more force ”Bless my court plaster! don't jump and injure yourself”

But Toile to leap froood speed He did not want Mr Daht be an explosion At the same tiht in, while the twomachine, hurried to a safe distance

Touisher It was one he had constructed from an old one found in the shop, but it contained so been used at so inventor to put on the uisher after he had disposed of his big airshi+p invention

”Look out there! The gasoline tankvoice

Toan to play a s car He was thus able to direct the white, frothy chemical better than when he had shot it from the airshi+p, and in a few seconds only so smoke remained to tell of the presence of the fire The autoe was not past redemption

”Bless my check book! you did the trick, Toratulate his companion

”Yes But this wasn't e

Short circuit?” he asked Field and Melling ere now returning, having seen that the danger was passed

”I--I guess so,” replied Melling, in his squeaky voice ”We--we are ed to you”

”No thanks necessary,” said Too back with Mr Damon to their car ”It's what any one would do under like circumstances”

”Only you did it very effectively,” observed Field