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No. 16.NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1903.Price 5 Cents.

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

By “NONAME.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER[I.]SHOT FOR MONEY.
CHAPTER[II.]THE ENGINE OF THE CLOUDS.
CHAPTER[III.]A STOWAWAY.
CHAPTER[IV.]A LIGHT FROM THE SKY.
CHAPTER[V.]FOUND AND LOST.
CHAPTER[VI.]FOILED AGAIN.
CHAPTER[VII.]SAVED FROM DEATH.
CHAPTER[VIII.]BAFFLED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
CHAPTER[IX.]THE OASIS IN THE DESERT.
CHAPTER[X.]BUYING A SHIP’S CREW.
CHAPTER[XI.]IN A TIGER’S JAWS.
CHAPTER[XII.]LOSS OF A WHEEL.
CHAPTER[XIII.]A BOMBSHELL.
CHAPTER[XIV.]CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER I.
SHOT FOR MONEY.

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.