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TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE VICTOR APPLETON TOM SWIFT AMONG THE DIAMOND MAKERS
Or the Secret of Phantom Mountain
TOM SWIFT IN THE CAVES OF ICE
Or the Wreck of the Airship
TOM SWIFT AND HIS SKY RACER
Or the Quickest Flight on Record
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RIFLE
Or Daring Adventures in Elephant Land
(Other Volumes in Preparation)
TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE
CONTENTS
I. AN APPEAL FOR AID
II. MISS NESTOR'S NEWS
III. TOM KNOCKS OUT ANDY
IV. MR. DAMOM WILL GO ALONG
V. VOL-PLANING TO EARTH
VI. THE NEW AIRSHIP
VII. MAKING SOME CHANGES
VIII. ANDY FOGER'S REVENGE
IX. THE WHIZZER FLIES
X. OVER THE OCEAN
XI. A NIGHT OF TERROR
XII. A DOWNWARD GLIDE
XIII. ON EARTHQUAKE ISLAND
XIV. A NIGHT IN CAMP
XV. THE OTHER CASTAWAY
XVI. AN ALARMING THEORY
XVII. A MIGHTY SHOCK
XVIII. MR. JENKS HAS DIAMONDS
XIX. SECRET OPERATIONS
XX. THE WIRELESS PLANT
XXI. MESSAGES INTO SPACE
XXII. ANXIOUS DAYS
XXIII. A REPLY IN THE DARK
XXIV. "WE ARE LOST!"
XXV. THE RESCUE-CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I
AN APPEAL FOR AID
Tom Swift stepped from the door of the machine shop where he was at
work making some adjustments to the motor of his airship and
glanced down the road. He saw a cloud of dust which effectually
concealed whatever was causing it.
"Some one must be in a hurry this morning" the lad remarked "Looks
like a motor speeding along. MY! but we certainly do need rain" he
added as he looked up toward the sky. "It's very dusty. Well I may
as well get back to work. I'll take the airship out for a flight
this afternoon if the wind dies down a bit."
The young inventor for Tom Swift himself had built the airship as
well as several other crafts for swift locomotion turned to re-
enter the shop.
Something about the approaching cloud of dust however held his
attention. He glanced more intently at it.
"If it's an automobile coming along" he murmured "it's moving very
slowly to make so much fuss. And I never saw a motor-cycle that
would kick up as much sand and not speed along more. It ought to be
here by now. I wonder what it can be?"
The cloud of highway dirt rolled along making some progress toward
Tom's house and the group of shops and other buildings surrounding
it. But as the lad had said the dust did not move at all quickly
in comparison to any of the speedy machines that might be causing
it. And the cloud seemed momentarily to grow thicker and thicker.
"I wonder if it could be a miniature tornado or a cyclone or
whirlwind?" and Tom spoke aloud a habit of his when he was
thinking and had no one to talk to. "Yet it can hardly be that." he
went on. "Guess I'll watch and see what it is."
Nearer and nearer came the dust cloud. Tom peered anxiously ahead a
puzzled look on his face. A few seconds later there came from the
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