Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds
ing voice, and Uncle Ezra looked
up before I answer you," said
nwillingly enough,
never go. You might a good deal better take the money that you are so foolishly wasting, and put it in a s
naire. "It's on the same model as one I've ridden in, and
aviator. "I'm sure of that. But I don't g
surprise. He was all attention when it came to a
o encourage inventors, has offered a prize of twenty thousand dollars to the first person who takes his airship from the Atla
oing to win it,
ing to share in the gl
ars!" murmured Uncle
friends who are going to have a try for it. I intended to myself, but for the accident in which my craft was sma
YSELF as much a favor in having you build this airship as I am YOU. I i
again, slowly. "It's an awful lot of money-an
had nearly a million. But he was very "clo
rize in that-that contraption?" he asked,
finished yet,"
y," declared Mr. Vardon. "I don't say that just because I am building it, but be
rget your stabiliz
hearing about the twenty thousand dollar prize h
o keep the airship from turning over," explained Mr. Vardon, and he
at least he paid little attention, for he w
usand dollars! That's an awful lot o
lly Uncle Ezra, perhaps fearing that the
to be home today, but as I have missed the last train back to Dankville, listening to
ust play the host. "Go right in, Uncle Ezra and tell t
opping in the restaurant at the railroad depot on my way here, and getting a sandwic
e for five cents, but she said they didn't sell stale sandwiches. She seemed real put
throw away ten cents. That's the intere
rted back t
tually goes hungry, I believe. And his house-why he's got a fine one, but the only rooms he and Aunt Samantha ever open are the kitchen a
ested in airship
llars he was interested in," l
is, as the young
something, but it's too preposterous to mention.
it a try-out on the blocks before we mount it, to see if it develops enough
better," Dick said.
r-boat, which had been brought on from Kentfield. They had a jolly time, an
ing the days that followed. Uncle Ezra was more interested than Dick had believed po
rship began to look like what she was intended for. She was of a new model and shape
and sleeping quarters, as well as the machin
motor-boat, only up in the clouds, ins