"Well, Tom Swift, I can't thank you enough," said Mr. Whitford, one
day as he called to pay the young inventor a visit. "I'm ordered to
the Pacific coast and I may have to send for you with your airship,
and great searchlight."
"I don't believe I'll come," laughed the lad. "I'm going to take a
long rest and settle down."
"He's going to get married!" exclaimed Ned, taking care to get
behind a chair.
"If Mr. Tom marry, he keep Koku for servant?" asked the giant
anxiously.
"Oh, I'm not going to get married, just yet, Koku!" exclaimed Tom,
who was blushing furiously. "I'm going to invent something new."
"Bless my fountain pen!" cried Mr. Damon.
"Oh, Tom, it seems good to have you home again," said aged Mr. Swift
softly.
"Dat's what it do!" added Eradicate. "Boomerang hab been monstrous
lonely sence yo'-all been gone, Massa Tom."
"Well, I'm going to stay home--for a while," said Tom. And thus,
surrounded as he is by his friends and relatives, we will take leave
of Tom Swift.
THE END
Project Gutenberg's Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight, by Victor Appleton
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