Tom Swift and His War Tank; Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam

a Sla

r. He did not immediately go into the front room, whither Mary

a while, with a loud "Ahem!" and a rattling of his

, rising to shake hands with the fat

return. "What's going on up at your place

turning out different kinds of machines as usual,

what nearly broke t

nd looked quic

here?" he a

ome-and I heard some queer goings on at your place

lk about his inventions," interrupted M

happened to hear the fence crash, and I was wondering if something was coming out a

hines, and it didn't act just right. No great damage was done, though. How do you find business, Mr. Nestor, since the war spirit

o get good help. A lot of our boys enlisted, and some were tak

Not

idn't

draft. He wouldn't do that and tried again. Then the bank people heard about it and had him exempted. They said he was too v

ortion, for his bank, than any other in this county. Dad and I both took some, and have promised him more.

id Mr. Nestor. "I'm going to see Germany be

cept a little I'm keeping to buy a wedding present for Jennie M

eard

present to her has gone into Liberty Bond

it is,

r only knits like the Red Cross girls-will be telling about it f

where we're at. A lot of our men have been called. We tried to

as if in surprise. "You sto

airship motors for the Gover

oys are going off next week. Doesn't it make you thrill, Tom, when you see them marching o

!" crie

nment has got to be beaten, and we've got to d

ue. But every one, in a sense, has to judge for hi

to the piano and played. It was a rather welcome rel

f Tom?" asked Mr. Nestor,

nk of him?" An

t enlisting. Do you

er? Why,

f enough of his courage, and all that. But I m

o-morrow, Father. He told me

ngineer corps. It isn't like Tom Swift to hang back, and yet it does begin to look as though he cared more fo

ry laughed-a little. Yet there

the short cut from the railroad station, coming past the big f

'm too good a friend of Tom's to want to see him make a fool of himself. He ought to be in the army, or helping Uncle Sam in some way. And yet if he spends all h

dark to see them, and also too dark to behold anything on the other

t to the Swift home. Mr. Swift was not in the house, bein

" asked the b

from Washington yet," a

king a lo

ago on some business. But

ke a few more bonds. We want to double our allotment for Shopton, and be

of which Eradicate and Koku were on guard. They nodded to Ned, who pa

n without telling me something about it," mused Ned. "Well, I

I'm detectin' around heah;

helping you

t's whut I is!" and Eradicate strutted proudly up and down on his allotted part of the

onds, and was about to leave when he heard a call down the road and saw Tom comin

tionately, as his chum alighted w

of a chat with the President

r, I suppose?

es

et your co

here was a wonderin

o Washington to take an examination for the engineering c

wly. "I went to Washin

Ned, and his voice