"I don't know! Something wrong."
"Are you going to give up the chase?"
"I am not. Stick to the light. Koku, tell Mr. Damon to hold her on the course I set. I'll try to get this pressure down!" And Tom Swift began to work feverishly, while his ship rushed on through the night in danger, every moment, of being blown to atoms. Yet the young inventor would not give up, and descend to earth.
Chapter XX Suspicious Actions
The chase was kept up, and Tom, when he had a chance to look up at the speed register, as he labored frantically at the clogged gas machine, saw that they were rushing along as they never had before.
"Are we catching them, Ned?" he cried to his chum, who was not far away, playing the powerful light on the smugglers' craft.
"I think we're coming closer, but it's going to be a long chase. I don't see why we can't close up on 'em."
"Because they've got a very fast ship, Ned, and they are flying much lighter than we are. But we'll get 'em!"
"How are you making out with that gas machine?"