"Here we go! Off to the moon!" cried the man, and catching up a
big hammer he began to pound on the sides of the Annihilator as
if he would destroy the projectile.
CHAPTER X
WASHINGTON IS AFRAID
"Here! Here! Stop him! Grab that man!" cried Mr. Roumann, as
he rushed toward Axtell, who was hammering away madly.
Jack and Mark started for the fellow.
"Keep away!" cried the machinist, swinging the sledge toward the
boys. "I want to work on an airship, and I'm going to do it.
I'll make some dents in it, and then I'll straighten them out!
Whoop!"
Mr. Henderson hastened forward. He took in the situation at a
glance.
"That man is insane!" the professor whispered to the German
scientist. "Let me deal with him."
"Do something quickly," pleaded Mr. Roumann, "or he will damage
the projectile."
"This is the way I work!" cried the insane man, and he brought
down the hammer with great force on the rounded sides of the
Annihilator. He made quite a dent in it.
"Stop him!" begged Mr. Ronan.
Mark and Jack had retreated out of reach of the big hammer, the
professor and the German were consulting together, and in the
door of the shop appeared Andy Sudds with his gun.
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