XVIII AFTER THE CASH
XIX STOPPED ON THE ROAD
XX ON TIME
XXI OFF TO THE BIG RACE
XXII IN A DITCH
XIII THE POWER GONE
XIV ON THE TRACK
XXV WINNING THE PRIZE



TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT




CHAPTER I TOM HOPES FOR A PRIZE


"Father," exclaimed Tom Swift, looking up from a paper he was
reading, "I think I can win that prize!"

"What prize is that?" inquired the aged inventor, gazing away
from a drawing of a complicated machine, and pausing in his task
of making some intricate calculations. "You don't mean to say,
Tom, that you're going to have a try for a government prize for a
submarine, after all."

"No, not a submarine prize, dad," and the youth laughed.
"Though our Advance would take the prize away from almost any