CHAPTER V

A CRASH Adventures in plenty had befallen Tom Swift, and in many of them Ned Newton had had a share. But always the young inventor had come out “on top of the heap,” so perhaps Ned was justified in his feeling that everything would be all right. Still he could understand and appreciate Mr. Swift’s worry. Mr. Swift began looking for his hat and neck scarf, this last on the suggestion of his housekeeper. A little later Mr. Swift, Ned, and Eradicate, the aged colored servant who had been in the Swift family many years…