Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam

him, Mr

Make him leggo me! He suah am

ct the club upo

hlight, the young inventor saw his big servant holding tightly to a rather small, colored man, while the camera, wh

lict the club on him, Koku,

He had been here once before in the evening, Eradicate says. Well, he came while I was w

ld be. I must look and see what causes

exposition shal

Tom, with a laugh. "Well, di

was too tig

idn't get any, I guess you might let him go. I

character about the town. "I didn't go fo' to do nuffin', Massa Tom. I were jest goin'

n I tie you!"

o the negro, "if you had counted Rad's chickens he couldn't have counted as many in the morning. But

ey. I won't ne

him?" asked K

" sai

flict the c

ised his clu

m, protect me

nd he may have been the means of a great discovery. Remember Sam," Tom went on sternly, "I have your picture,

" said the negro earnestly. "Besides, I were only goin' t' c

scort him off the premises, and be on the lookout

e had to go to bed," explained the giant, to account for

rid of Sam, and

w his aged father coming slowly towar

s anything happened? I heard your alarm

cken thief. But something great may come of it. Do

er knew you had o

nes, but something seems to have happened to it to make it throw o

to where the wires from the automatic dynamo, extended to the sea

current from the big storage battery in a funny way. It must have been by accident, for never in the world w

r strength and intensity--a current that would seem to be made esp

hat certainly is a queer way for wires to

ter I made them. That must be it. I'll ask Rad and Koku." Just th

e out a while ago, when I was waiting for the thief to com

u, not knowing any better, did just the right thing to make an almost perfect searchlight current. It is wonder

iancy, and it goes for several miles. Look how plainly you can pick out the trees on Nob's Hill," and

er carbons, better parobolic mirrors, a different resistance box, better connections, and a more powerful primary current there is no reason wh

e the object of s

d, and catch them as they come

n to tell me you are going awa

my best for Uncle Sam. The one thing that bothered me was how to get a view of the airship at night. This searc

ou going away from home again,

few hundred miles. But I want to see if I can cut the current off, and turn it on again. When a th

ht died out. Then he turned it on once more, and it glowed as brightly

ow I'll start on my latest in