SILVER WHALE***


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[Illustration: FRANK READE WEEKLY MAGAZINE Containing Stories of
Adventures on Land, Sea & in the Air]

  _Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Application made for
               Second-Class Entry at N. Y. Post-Office._
 No. 44.               NEW YORK, AUGUST 28, 1903.        Price 5 Cents.

[Illustration: Frank Reade, Jr’s SEARCH FOR THE SILVER WHALE¡ or, Under
the Ocean in the Electric “Dolphin.” By “NONAME.”]

  Frank and Stanhope were ready to take care of themselves. As the shark
 descended upon them both crouched low. The creature’s open jaws were not
    four feet from Frank when he buried the pike in the shark’s body.

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                              FRANK READE

                            WEEKLY MAGAZINE.

     CONTAINING STORIES OF ADVENTURES ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR.

  _Issued Weekly—By Subscription $2.50 per year. Application made for
    Second Class entry at the New York, N. Y., Post Office Entered,
  according to Act of Congress in the year 1903, in the office of the
   Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. by Frank Tousey, 24 Union
                           Square, New York._

 =No. 44.=             NEW YORK, AUGUST 28, 1903.      =Price 5 Cents.=




            Frank Reade, Jr.’s Search for the Silver Whale;
                                  OR,
               UNDER THE OCEAN IN THE ELECTRIC “DOLPHIN”.


                              By “NONAME.”




                                CONTENTS


              CHAPTER    I. THE INVENTOR AND THE EXPLORER.
              CHAPTER   II. STANHOPE IS SATISFIED.
              CHAPTER  III. THE VOYAGE BEGUN.
              CHAPTER   IV. THE SUNKEN WRECK—THE SHARK.
              CHAPTER    V. BATTLE WITH A WHALE.
              CHAPTER   VI. THE ENGLISH SHIP.
              CHAPTER  VII. CHASING THE SILVER WHALE.
              CHAPTER VIII. THE CONFESSION FOUND.
              CHAPTER   IX. THE VALLEY OF PEARLS.
              CHAPTER    X. THE STORM.
              CHAPTER   XI. THE ISLAND—ON A REEF.
              CHAPTER  XII. CASTAWAY—RESCUE.
              CHAPTER XIII. THE END.




                               CHAPTER I.
                     THE INVENTOR AND THE EXPLORER.


“A submarine boat? Do you really mean it, Frank? I trust you are not
becoming mentally unbalanced with the success of your inventive efforts.
Not content with the Electric Air-ship, you now meditate the
construction of a submarine vessel.”

“That is what I said, friend Stanhope.”

“But, pshaw, man! Do you realize what an impossible feat that is?”

“I realize only that it is quite possible,” replied the young inventor,
imperturbably.

“And you are really in earnest?”

“As much as I ever was in my life.”

George Stanhope, explorer and geologist, and a handsome, well developed
American, of forty years, of varied experiences, sat quite still for a
moment and studied the features of his companion.

This was Frank Reade, Jr., of Readestown, U. S. A., the most famous man
in the inventive line of the present generation.

Despite his youth, he had brought to perfection some of the most
wonderful and gigantic of enterprises.

At the moment the two men were sitting in the smoking room of the
Southern Hotel in New Orleans.

It was while discussing various topics that the subject of the submarine
boat was broached.

At once Stanhope was interested and incredulous.

He listened to Frank’s theories for awhile, then began to express his
incredulity.

And thus we find them arguing the matter at the opening of our story.

“You may be in earnest, Frank,” said the explorer, with a laugh, “but I
think you have tackled a pretty difficult subject. Don’t you agree with
me?”

Frank smiled.

“It is not so difficult to solve submarine navigation as aerial