Tom Swift and His Motor Boat (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I a motor-boat auction" "Where are you going, Tom?" asked Mr. Barton Swift of his son as the young man was slowly pushing his motor-cycle out of the yard toward the country road. "You look as though you had some object in view." "So I have, dad. I'm going over to Lanton.* "To Lanton? What for?" "I want to have a look at that motor-boat." "Which boat is that, Tom? I don't recall your speaking about a boat over at Lanton. What do you want to look at it for ?" "It's the motor-boat those fellows had who tried to get away with your turbine model invention, dad. The one they used at the old General Harkness mansion, in.the woods near the lake, and the same boat that fellow used when he got away from me the day I was chasing him here." x

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER _ PAGZ; I A Motor-Boat Auction I; II Some Lively Bidding 12; III A Timely Warning 24; IV Tom and Andy Clash 32; V A Test of Speed 38; VI Towing Some Girls $3; VII A Brush With Andy« 60; VIII Off on a Trip 68; IX Mr Swift is Alarmed 78; X A Cry for Help 87; XI A Quick Run 94; XII Suspicious Characters 103; XIII Tom in Dancer xix; XIV The Arrow Disappears 118; XV A Damaging Statement 12S; XVI Still on the Search 135; XVII "There She is!"141; XVIII The Pursuit 153; XIX A Quiet Cruise IS9; XX News of a Robbery 16/; ui

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