The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane
Richard Bonner
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 27, 2017)
âAre either Mr. Chadwick or Mr. Jesson about?â âHumph!â and the gangling, rather disagreeable-looking youth who had answered the summons to the door of the Boy Inventorsâ workshop, gave a supercilious look over the dusty and worn, although carefully mended, clothes of the dark-eyed, dark-haired, slender youth who confronted him. âWhat do you want to know that for, anyhow?â and upon the personal pronoun he placed a contemptuous emphasis. âThat is a question to which I can only reply when I can see either Jack Chadwick or Tom Jesson personally. My name is Ned Nevins,ânot that either of them knows me,âbut will you be so kind as to find out if theyâll see me?â âIf you canât tell me your business, you canât see them. State what you want to me. If itâs moneyâââ âIt is not!â The dark-eyed young visitorâs eyes held a warning flash which the other lad, who was half a head taller and far stouter of build than Ned Nevins, affected not to notice. âWell, you canât speak to them.â This with an air of finality. âBut you donât understandâââ âI do, perfectly. They are both far too busy to bother with any inquisitive kind of tramp that happens along.â âThen you wonât let them know I would like to see them?â The otherâs voice rose angrily. âI said âNoâ once. N-O-no! Isnât that enough?â âQuite enough.â