Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
ntly the enemy ship had blanked out their radio co
do you want?" Tom sa
sply, "You'll find ou
nged another worried glance with B
crate's armed!" Bud muttere
space plants maybe-
," Bud said. "Got any trick
his fingers. "Hey! I almost forgot!" he exclaimed. "Look in the locker,
ghtened. "Now
fense against an Oriental enemy's jamming-wave generator. Bud found it in
nd headed west. As Tom stalled for time, it swooped back
ow us! Or would you p
reat, a burst of tracer
mike. "Okay, hold your fire
nwhile, Bud had warmed up the other radio and contacted Enterprises. Tom swi
alert Vignall Air
he enemy ship detected the call, Tom knew the automatic scra
ght continued. "Where are th
robably," Tom conjectured. "I wonde
rm and pointed to starboard.
ank to the north. Closing in rapidly, they were soon v
. "Can you read me?... You'd better read me, pal! I order you to pro
frantic effort to escape. But the fighters, with almost contemptuous e
r. "Just a sheep in wolf
len-faced men, their hands up, emerged from the mystery jet. Military police wit
he heard the boys' story. Turning to the prisoners, he s
ckily built man of about forty-five,
no words. "Search th
private pilot's license on which he was identified as "Jack Smith." The names of the
e commandant muttered, "b
ed with sneering evasions. The commandant reddened with anger at the
ackers off, Tom asked how t
d. "Air Force Intelligence will co-operate on the case, b
missile mystery, then asked, "Could those men be transferred to the Shopton jail f
t nodded. "I'
ical glance. "How come you mentioned the Jupiter prober, sk
lf, Bud. If they were, it could m
ull report to Harlan Ames, the slim, dark-haired security c
n Americans
h well enough, but with a faint accent. So
" More than once, Brungarian rebel agents had enga
'm wrong," To
led again," Ames added. "Still
rove his suspicion, he drove to Shopton Police Headquarters with Harlan Ames. The two tal
gle large cell. They seemed tense and angry-a
d. Getting no reply, he repeat
uage is that?" asked "Captain
-seemed oddly familiar. Why? Suddenly the answer hit Tom like a flash. He resembled Streffan Mirov, the bri
"You know what your government d
ed. "We have not b-b-bung
fool!" their l