[XXI. “Things Are Coming Our Way”]
[XXIII. The Start of a Long Chase]
THE BOY INVENTORS AND THE VANISHING GUN
CHAPTER I—AN ECCENTRIC INVENTOR
Jack Chadwick stepped from the door of the shed where he and Tom Jesson, his cousin—and, like Jack, about seventeen years old—had been busy all the morning getting the Flying Road Racer back into shape, after that wonderful craft’s adventurous cruise along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
“Almost eleven o’clock,” said Jack, and, thrusting his hand into the breast pocket of his khaki working shirt, he drew out a rather crumpled bit of yellow paper.