Frank Reade Jr. and His Engine of the Clouds / Or, Chased Around the World in the Sky

Transcriber’s Note:
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“Climb up that ladder to the airship!” exclaimed the detective. “Very well,” said Murdock, and up he went. Frank and Reynard followed him, and the ship sped on. Pomp received the prisoner. “Wha’ yo’ gwine ter do wif him?” he asked Frank.
FRANK READE
WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
CONTAINING STORIES OF ADVENTURES ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR.
Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Application made for Second Class entry at the New York, N. Y. Post Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1903, in the office of the Librarian of Congress. Washington. D. C., by Frank Tousey. 24 Union Square, New York.
By “NONAME.”
It was a bitterly cold night in March.
The bleak, gloomy streets of Chicago were almost deserted.
A poor little boy in rags was slinking along an aristocratic avenue, shivering with the cold and looking very wretched.
His pallid, emaciated face showed poverty and privation, an air of utter misery surrounded him, and he had a mournful look in his sunken eyes.