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"I hope, though, I can find a place where I can see the look on that darkey's face when he tries his magneto and waits for the bing! from out yonder. Oh, Sambo, you simply can't have any idea of how I've been wishing it on you tonight!"
"Also it's got dry battery ignition, Abe," Morris concluded triumphantly, "instead of one of them now magneto arrangements, which I ain't got no confidence in at all." Abe nodded again. "I never had no confidence in dagoes neither," he said. "Fellers which couldn't speak the English language properly, y'understand, is bound to do you sooner or later."
A magneto may fail temporarily; an ignition wire or a valve spring break.
"I'll ask Nicolas to show you, to-morrow," Tom laughed mischievously. "But, Corbett, I believe that four bombs are even now attached to some part of the retaining wall, ready to be set off. "Great Scott!" "They won't be set off, though," continued Reade. "I found the firing magneto, and had a chance to cut the wires."
He could afford to let it get wet provided the carburetor and magneto were not submerged and the gas tank The gas tank. That thought stabbed him. Could the gasoline have flowed out of the tank while the machine was hanging up and down? That would bring the supply hole, with its perforated screw-cover, underneath.
"If it isn't a magneto, or if I can't find it in time," Tom muttered uneasily, "the mystery may remain nearly as great as ever, and the explosion may be pulled off to-night, after all." Twenty minutes passed before Reade, with all his senses alert, stumbled on the concealed magneto.
In this engine the steel cylinders were secured to the crank case by flanges, and radiating ribs were formed around the barrel to assist the air-cooling. Inlet and exhaust valves were actuated by push-rods and rockers actuated from the second motion shaft mounted above the crank case; this shaft also drove the high-tension magneto with which the engine was fitted.
The propellers were still whirring around by their own momentum, and if Tom could switch in the magneto in time all might yet be well. They had started to fall, but, by quickly bringing up the head plane tips, Tom sent his craft soaring upward again on a bank of air. "Here!" he cried to Mr. Damon. "Take the steering-wheel and kept her on this level as long as you can." "What are you going to do?"
Sambo, watching, knew finally that his quarry was at last able to talk. "Wha' yo' do to mah magernetto?" demanded Sambo. "Guess," breathed Tom. "Oh, take yo' time, boss. Ah got plenty ob dat accommerdation" "What magneto are you talking about?" Reade queried innocently. "Nebber heard ob it befo', eh, boss?" "I've heard of plenty of magnetos, of course," admitted Tom.
"I have done you a good turn, Simmonds are you prepared to do me one?" "Just try me, sir." "Put your car out of commission. Stick a pin through the earth contact of your magneto and jam it against a cylinder, or something of the sort. Then go to Miss Vanrenen and tell her how sorry you are, but you must have another week at least to pull things straight.
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