The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane

by Richard Bonner

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	A New Friend Made	5
[II.]	An Invention Described	15
[III.]	An Important Decision	23
[IV.]	Ned to the Rescue	33
[V.]	The Unlucky Story	43
[VI.]	His Enemies on the Trail	54
[VII.]	Ned Makes an Enemy	62
[VIII.]	The Plans Accepted	71
[IX.]	The Arrival of Trouble	82
[X.]	Heiny Pumpernick Dill	91
[XI.]	The Convertible Sausage Machine	98
[XII.]	Hank and Miles Meet Their Match	106
[XIII.]	Ready for Flight	113
[XIV.]	Heiny Overhears the Plot	124
[XV.]	The Burglar Trap	132
[XVI.]	The Lost Lever	150
[XVII.]	Off at Last!	161
[XVIII.]	Ned’s Terrible Peril	169
[XIX.]	The Disgruntled Cronies	179
[XX.]	Tom to the Rescue	187
[XXI.]	Saluting a Steamer	194
[XXII.]	An Old Friend	202
[XXIII.]	The Lost Plans	211
[XXIV.]	A Baffling Robbery	220
[XXV.]	Off to the Fair	227
[XXVI.]	An Unlucky Mishap	237
[XXVII.]	A Dash for Liberty	248
[XXVIII.]	A Dirigible in Danger	258
[XXIX.]	A Daring Rescue	269
[XXX.]	A Strange Meeting	277
[XXXI.]	Ned Comes into his Own	283

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The Boy Inventors’ Electric Hydroaeroplane.

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[CHAPTER I.]
A NEW FRIEND MADE.

“Are either Mr. Chadwick or Mr. Jesson about?”

“Humph!” and the gangling, rather disagreeable-looking youth who had answered the summons to the door of the Boy Inventors’ workshop, gave a supercilious look over the dusty and worn, although carefully mended, clothes of the dark-eyed, dark-haired, slender youth who confronted him.

“What do you want to know that for, anyhow?” and upon the personal pronoun he placed a contemptuous emphasis.