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"It looks so," observed Tom. "The attack must have started in the engine-room," he went on, with a look at Mound and Ventor. "What happened there?" he asked. "Well, that's about the way it was," answered the engineer. "We were working away, making some adjustments, oiling the parts and seeing that everything was running smoothly, when, all at once, I heard Koku yell. He had gone in the oil room.
Where had the strange men come from? What did they mean by thus assaulting Tom and his companions? And what had happened to the others of the crew Koku, Jerry Mound, the engineer, and George Ventor, the assistant pilot? These were only a few of the questions Tom asked himself, as he lay there, bound and helpless. Doubtless Mr. Damon and the others were asking themselves similar questions.
By the vibration Tom could tell that the motor was running evenly and well. "But what happened to the others to Mound, Ventor and Koku?" wondered Tom. A moment later several of the foreigners entered. Some of them did not look at all like Frenchmen, and Tom was sure one was a German and another a Russian.
And that was done while, under Tom's direction, his men took the damaged motor apart, with a view to repairing it. "What was it, Tom?" asked Ned, coming back to join his chum, after George Ventor, the assistant pilot, had taken charge of the wheel. "I don't exactly know, Ned," was the answer. "But I feel certain that some of my enemies came aboard here and worked this mischief."
For, as soon as Koku, Ventor and I were disposed of, some of them went at the machinery as if they had been used to running it all their lives." "Oh, the foreigners are experts when it comes to craft of the air," said Captain Warner. "Well, they seem to be running her, all right," admitted the young inventor, "and at good speed, too. They have increased our running rate, if I am any judge."
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