This last achievement was the perfecting of a machine to aid in
the great World War and you will find the details set down in the
volume which immediately precedes this. "Tom Swift and His War
Tank," it is called, and in that is related how he not only
invented a marvelous machine, but succeeded in keeping its secret
from the plotters who tried to take it from him. In this Tom was
helped by the inspiration of Mary Nestor, whom he hoped some day
to marry, and by Ned Newton, a chum, who, though no inventor
himself, could admire one.
Ned and Tom had been chums a long while, but Ned inclined more
to financial and office matters than to machinery. At times he
had managed affairs for Tom, and helped him finance projects. Ned
was now an important bank official, and since the United States
had entered the war had had charge of some Red Cross work, as
well as Liberty Bond campaigns.
Somehow, as she sat there in the craft which seemed disabled,
Mary Nestor could not help thinking of Tom's many activities, in
some of which she had shared.
"Oh, if he falls now, and is killed!" she thought.
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