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Title: The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun
Release Date: June 11, 2018 [eBook #57305]
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In this book, words and phrases originally in italics are enclosed in underscores _like this_.
[Illustration: AS HE MOVED ALONG AND NEARED ITS CENTER, THE BOARD CRACKED AND BENT OMINOUSLY.]
Author of “The Boy Inventors’ Wireless Triumph,” “The Boy Inventors’ Diving Torpedo Boat,” etc., etc.
I. An Eccentric Inventor II. The Vanishing Gun III. A Flying Machine in Trouble IV. Zack Gets Mad V. The Yellow Auto VI. Getting the Doctor VII. A Rescue in Mid-Air VIII. Mr. Peregrine Explains IX. A Mysterious Man X. An Unwelcome Encounter XI. The Wrong Road XII. The Red-Bearded Man XIII. Jake Rook & Co. XIV. The Driverless Car XV. Tom Makes a Discovery XVI. Jack in Dire Peril XVII. “Drive Where We Tell You” XVIII. In the Old Mansion XIX. Mr. Stephen Melville XX. Found and Lost XXI. “Things Are Coming Our Way” XXII. “There’s Many a Slip” XXIII. The Start of a Long Chase XXIV. Jack’s Triumph
Jack Chadwick stepped from the door of the shed where he and Tom Jesson, his cousin—and, like Jack, about seventeen years old—had been busy all the morning getting the Flying Road Racer back into shape, after that wonderful craft’s adventurous cruise along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
“Almost eleven o’clock,” said Jack, and, thrusting his hand into the breast pocket of his khaki working shirt, he drew out a rather crumpled bit of yellow paper.