Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast, by Luis Senarens
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Over the schooner swept the Jove, and Frank got on the ladder with the boy. Barney drove the machine over the water toward the shore. Many bullets were shot at the inventor. They missed him, and he was carried out of danger.
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.”
Toward the close of a cool, pleasant day in September, 18—, the residents of the village of Readestown were startled by seeing a horseman come dashing furiously into the town.
He was a middle-aged man, with dark, swarthy features, piercing black eyes, a black mustache and dark hair. His slender figure was clad in the costume of a native Mexican, and he rode like an expert.
The man bestrode a fine, swift bay mare, and as he went thundering through the main street enveloped in a cloud of dust at the top of the mare’s speed, he attracted considerable attention.