12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Copyright, 1911, by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY BEN HARDY’S FLYING MACHINE Printed in U. S. A. CONTENTS [Pg 1] [Pg 1] BEN HARDY’S FLYING MACHINE CHAPTER I “NOBLY REWARDED!” “Take care—that engine is going to run wild!” Those words, yelled out by a brawny mechanic, announced a moment of excitement in the Saxton Automobile Works, the home of the celebrated Estrelle machine. The big steam engine of the plant had slipped the belt. There was a jar and then a crash. Then the big driving wheel of the engine began speeding like an uncontrollable monster. Clouds of steam covered the boiler room like a snow bank. The machine shop gearing snapped and vibrated, and the building began to shake from end to end. One big man with a shout of dismay ran for the front of the shop, and disappeared through its doorway into the street. This was Jasper Saxton, the owner of the establishment. His example was followed[Pg 2] by several of the clerks in the glass-partitioned office at the front of the building. Most of the twenty odd machinists in the shop, however, stuck to their posts. [Pg 2] “Danger—look out!” shouted old Caleb Dunn, the foreman. Every man at a lathe immediately slipped the belt of his special machine. Those at the further end of the shop did not attempt this. They
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