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The main section of the Star Spear was safe!
“Here comes the next section!” Tom cried presently. “Bud’s really got everyone on the Queen hustling.”
As they started toward the beach to meet the bare, Tom and his father were startled by a scream, then a cry from the cove.
“Help! Help!”
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“THAT SOUNDS like Chow!” Tom said as the call for help was repeated.
He and his father climbed aboard a jeep that had been left parked nearby and raced in the direction of the cove. They sped past the boys’ cottage and down to the dunes.
Mr. Swift and Tom jumped out and ran to the water’s edge. In the glow from the car’s headlights they could see vaguely a battle going on between two figures inside Chow’s weir. One was a man, the other a strange-looking creature. First one was knocked under water, then the other.
“That’s Chow!” Tom cried suddenly. “But what’s the other thing?”
The Swifts stood by, ready to assist if necessary. In a few seconds, however, they smiled as the Texan came off the victor, dragging his opponent onto the beach.
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“Man alive, what have you got there?” Tom asked.
Chow’s prisoner was a man but presented a very strange appearance. He was covered from shoulders ‘That’s Chow!” Tom cried suddenly
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to feet in a tight-fitting, one-piece suit of rubberized fabric and wore a glass faceplate, connected by a length of one-inch tubing to two metal cylinders that were strapped to his back.
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