CONTENTS
1 More Power!
2 Sizzling Metal
3 The Mysterious Caller
4 Danger Zone
5 Exciting Plans
6 A Night of Peril
7 Antitruth Serum
8 Space Outpost
9 Blackout!
10 Lariat Lifeline
11 A Startling Disappearance
12 Message from Nowhere
13 The Secret Formula
14 Moon Search
15 The Half-Buried Rocket
16 Trapped in the Abyss
17 Surprise Missile
18 A Strange Capture
19 Flag of Truce
20 A Race to the Rescue
CHAPTER I
MORE POWER!
“Calling Tom Swift!”
“Power failure in the wind tunnel!”
“Hey, the presses have stopped in the metal-stamping department.”
Excited voices blared out over the loud-speaker in Tom Swift’s private laboratory at Swift Enterprises’ vast experimental station. The telephone was jangling shrilly. A lanky, blond youth of eighteen with deep-set blue eyes switched off his experimental equipment and scooped up the receiver.
“Tom Jr. speaking.”
“For Pete’s sake, take it easy, skipper!” gasped a voice at the other end of the line. “You’ve popped the main circuit breaker!”
“The load’s off,” Tom reported. “I just stopped my experiment.”
As he hung up, a husky dark-haired youth burst into the laboratory. “Hey, what’s going on,
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genius boy?” Bud Barclay demanded. “Are you trying to sabotage this place?”
Tom grinned wryly. “Relax, Bud. I was just running a test on my new matter-making machine. I arranged with the power plant to cut in the stand-by generator, but even that wasn’t enough to handle the current load.”
Bud slumped down on a lab stool and mopped his forehead. “Whew! I thought someone was blowing up the joint! Even the radio tower started to-”