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"Well, the next time I invite you to a test I'll be more
careful," promised the young inventor.
"There isn't going to be any next time as far as I'm
concerned!" laughed Ned. "I think it's safer to sell Liberty
Bonds."
And, though they joked about it, they all realized the narrow
escape they had had. As for Eradicate, once he knew he had not
been the one who caused the damage, he felt rather proud of the
part he had taken in the mishap, and for many days he boasted
about it to Koku.
True to his determination, Tom Swift did not give up his
experimental work on the silent motor. The machine that had been
blown through the roof was useless now, and it was sent to the
scrap heap, after as much of it as possible had been salvaged.
Then Tom got another piece of apparatus out of his store room and
began all over again.
He worked along the same lines as at first--providing a chamber
for the escaping gases of the exhaust to expend their noise and
energy in, at the same time laboring to cut down the concussion
of the explosions in the cylinder without reducing their force
any.


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