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قراءة كتاب Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
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Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
or
Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
By
VICTOR APPLETON
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I | A TEMPTING OFFER |
| II | TROUBLE STARTS |
| III | TOM SWIFT'S FRIENDS |
| IV | MUCH TO THINK ABOUT |
| V | BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS |
| VI | THE CONTRACT SIGNED |
| VII | THE MAN WITH BIG FEET |
| VIII | AN ENEMY IN THE DARK |
| IX | WHERE WAS KOKU? |
| X | A STRANGE CONVERSATION |
| XI | TOUCH AND GO |
| XII | THE TRY-OUT DAY ARRIVES |
| XIII | HOPES AND FEARS |
| XIV | SPEED |
| XV | THE ENEMY STILL ACTIVE |
| XVI | OFF FOR THE WEST |
| XVII | THE WRECK OF FORTY-EIGHT |
| XVIII | ON THE HENDRICKTON & PAS ALOS |
| XIX | PERIL, THE MOTHER OF INVENTION |
| XX | THE RESULT |
| XXI | THE OPEN SWITCH |
| XXII | A DESPERATE CHASE |
| XXIII | MR. DAMON AT BAT |
| XXIV | PUTTING THE ENEMY TO FLIGHT |
| XXV | SPEED AND SUCCESS |
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
Chapter I
A Tempting Offer
"An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility," said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. "It is one of those things that are coming," and he flashed his son, Tom Swift, a knowing smile. It had been a topic of conversation between them before the visitor from the West had been seated before the library fire and had sampled one of the elder Swift's good cigars.
"It is not only a future possibility," said the latter gentleman, shrugging his shoulders. "As far as the Hendrickton and Pas Alos Railroad Company goes, a two mile a minute gait—not alone on a level track but through the Pas Alos Range—is an immediate necessity. It's got to be done now, or our stock will be selling on the curb for about two cents a share."
"You do not mean just that, do you, Mr. Bartholomew?" asked Tom Swift earnestly, and staring at the big-little man before the fire.
Mr. Richard Bartholomew was just that—a "big-little man." In the railroad world, both in construction and