Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure

a Treasu

some immense bird, sailed along, casting a grotesque shadow on the ground below. An el

gert?" he called to a motherly-looking woma

was Tom and Mr. Sharp in their airship, that's all. I didn

good view of the air, unobstructed by the trees. "Yes, there they are," he added. "That's the airship, but I didn't expect

r, for the craft, after swooping down close to the house, had ascended and was now hovering just above the

Baggert, the housekeeper. "You've got too much

I wish Tom and Mr. Sharp would l

traveler of the air, swung around, and then, with the deflection rudders slanted downward, came on with a rush. When near the landing place, just at the side of the house, the mo

art of the craft touched the ground than there le

safe and sound. Made a record, too. Touched nin

t more leisurely in his exit from the cabin. Mr. Sharp, a veteran aeronaut, stop

d against us about two miles up in the air, which del

put in Mrs. Baggert. "I gu

e, Tom. I was day-dreaming, I think, when your ship whizzed through the air. But tell me, did you find everything all right at Sh

. We brought the things you wanted. They're in the airship. Oh, b

elp me. And I need Mr. Sharp's help, too. Get the

just like the looks of the weather, and, besides, if we leave the ship exposed

't want people prying around the submarine shed. By all

it barely touched the earth. A little more of the powerful vapor and the Red Cloud would have risen by itself. In a few minutes the wonderf

found the lad's father standing before a great shape, which loomed up dimly in the semi-darkness of the building. It was like an immense cylinder, pointed at either end, and here and there were openings, covered

th, as he deposited his bundle on a ben

iving me considerable trouble, though. But I guess we ca

he young inventor proceeded to take th

he shed. He noted that some progress had been made on it since he had left the seacoast several days before to make a trip to Shopton, in

t on several new plates," ob

idle, were we, Garret?" and he nodded to the aged

e water, Tom, now that you and Mr. Sharp a

p, who brought in another bundle. He referred to an eccentric individual who had recently made an airship voyage with

eled pretty fast on land with my motorcycle, and we certainly have hummed t

nside of a month," remarked the aged inventor. "Look here, Mr. Sharp, I ma

a cigar can be said to have a front and rear, and the inventor, his son, and the aeronaut

aggert. She was not fond of waiting with meals, and even the most serious problem of mechanics was, in her estima

is talk went on even after the table was cleared off and the three had adjourned to the sitting-room. There Mr. Swift brought out pencil

as that?" asked Tom, looking

ather; and his son resume

ion to the positive and negative plates which will form our motive power, I

Tom, getting up from his chair, and holding his f

what?" aske

of the sinking of

ship? No

vered. Expert divers who were taken to the scene of the wreck state that the depth of water, and the many currents existing there, due to a submerged shoal, preclude any possibility of getting at the hull. The bullion, it is believed, was to have been used to further the interests of a certain revolutionary faction, but it seems likely that they will have to look elsewhere for the sinews of war. Besides the bull

think it's too bad for the re

sure being still on board

if the divers can't get at it. Now

" cried Tom

matter?" asked Mr. S

h our submarine?" went on Tom

a month

lose up to it, and in the new diving suits you invented we can get at that gold bullion. Three hundred thousand dollars! Think of it, dad! Three hundred thousand dollar

my new ship in the trials for the prize

prize if you wi

housand

uch at least, and maybe more. Dad, let the Govern

e idea his son had proposed made an impression on him. He reached out his hand for the paper in which the young

k of it?" he aske

sily go three miles down, and it doesn't lie as deeply as that, if this account

dad?" asked

nsidered a m

will be likely to afford us a better test of the submarine than wo

. Sharp and waving it in the air. "That's the stu