文档介绍：TOM SWIFT AND HIS AERIAL WARSHIP
TOM SWIFT AND HIS
AERIAL WARSHIP
(or The Naval Terror of the Seas)
VICTOR APPLETON
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TOM SWIFT AND HIS AERIAL WARSHIP
CHAPTER I
TOM IS PUZZLED
"What's the matter, Tom? You look rather blue!"
"Blue! Say, Ned, I'd turn red, green, yellow, or any other color of the
rainbow, if I thought it would help matters any."
"Whew!"
Ned Newton, the chum panion of Tom Swift, gave vent to a
whistle of surprise, as he gazed at the young fellow sitting opposite him,
near a bench covered with strange-looking tools and machinery, while
blueprints and drawings were scattered about.
Ranged on the sides of the room were models of many queer craft,
most of them flying machines of one sort or another, while through the
open door that led into a large shed could be seen the outlines of a speedy
monoplane. "As bad as that, eh, Tom?" went on Ned. "I thought
something was up when I first came in, but, if you'll excuse a second
mention of the color scheme, I should say it was blue--decidedly blue. You
look as though you had lost your last friend, and I want to assure you that
if you do feel that way, it's dead wrong. There's myself, for one, and I'm
sure Mr. Damon--"
"Bless my gasoline tank!" exclaimed Tom, with a laugh, in imitation of
the gentleman Ned Newton had mentioned, "I know that! I'm not worrying
over the loss of any friends."
"And there are Eradicate, and Koku, the giant, just to mention a couple
of others," went on Ned, with a smile.
"That's enough!" exclaimed Tom. "It isn't that, I tell you."
"Well, what is it then? Here I go and get a half-holiday off from the
bank, and just at the busiest time, too, e and see you, and I find you
in a brown study, looking as blue as indigo, and maybe you're all yellow
inside from a bilious attack, for all I know."
"Quite bination of colors," admitted Tom. "But it isn't what you
think. It's just that I'm puzzled, Ned."
"Puzzled?" and Ned raised his eyebrows to in