Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X
listened as the radi
the rebel coup is pouring in from Maurevia, Brungaria's powerful province in the north. The Brunga
p poses a new and dangerous threat to free-world security. Further news repor
andy was wide-eyed with the realization that the news
o briefed us wasn't kidding, eh,
r than he expe
urried to the hall telephone. In a few moments he managed t
garian coup as bad as it
ed. "They envy America and they'll move heaven and earth to steal our scientific
FBI man his opinion about the discovery of th
FBI agent said thoughtfully. "If our enemies were planning to
id and loot Enterprises after the place was thrown into disord
iewed Narko himself, FBI agents who had grille
the time of the Harkness and Medfield disasters, seismographs recorded simultaneous quakes off the coa
puzzlement as he hung up the telephone af
n to his companions, Bud said, "You me
man-produced underground blasts. It just doesn't jibe with those other remo
ss and Medfield were real
c belt which is well known to seismologists. I'm no expert, but perhaps they could have set off c
nd nose-cone factories had been wrecked by the shock. But in spite of the seismographic cl
lled laboratory at Enterprises, eager to continue work o
e had drawn in his office the afternoon befo
nd. Grabbing pencil and slide rule, he began to d
Chow Winkler, wearing a white chef's
ppetizing meal of Texas hash, milk, and deep-dish apple pie on the bench besi
r he finished a set of pilot drawings. Then he called Hank Ste
interest as Tom explai
I think everything tracks okay. Hank, get these plans blueprinted and assign a
k rolled up
a scale model made to guide them on
or some time the next day,
k as Tom himself, when absorbed in a new project. By working on in his shop long after closing hours, Hanson had a desk-size mod
ne of your models of a new invention, I'm sure it'l
el to Hank Sterling and his project crew. Work was already well along on th
report they gave to Tom bore out his hunch that the rebel Brun
might be completed before the week end. To his delight, an Enterprises pickup truck pulled u
greeted it. "Is
It claims you're its daddy. But ha
it'll
s who worked on it will sure be disappointed. No kid
tain the actual brain energy. Its upper body, cylindrical in shape and of gleaming chrome, housed the output units th
iators for exerting a repulsion force when it wanted
ourglass-shaped power unit, ho
equipped with both casters and a sort of caterpillar-crawler arrangement for the contrivance
it worked as he hoped, this odd creature might one day provide earth scient
soon after Hank Sterling had left, fou
your spaceman?
gaping expressions. Each was trying to im
Chow commented, when Tom finished ex
d plumped it on the creature. Then he removed his polka-dotted red
y as Bud howled, "R
eceive the brain energy. Bud went with him by jeep to the space-communications laboratory.
the thing suspiciously from every angle. "
of his favorite bubble gum. Should he or shouldn't h
e was somewhat disappointed when nothing happened. Feeling a trifle foolish,
invented this device for automatically coding and decoding messages between the Swifts and their space friends. It was connected to
on as Tom
NTAINER FOR ENERGY IS NOW READ
rrisome afterth
O STEAL ENERGY. SUGGEST YOU USE FLIGHT PATH TO LA
when that black missile land
t yet learned of the Swifts' communication from another planet. Hence they would have
ud said. "Sma
s waited for a repl