Produced by Mary Wampler, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Aldarondo, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. ON A TORN-AWAY WORLD Or The Captives of the Great Earthquake BY ROY ROCKWOOD Other titles by ROY ROCKWOOD THE GREAT MARVEL SERIES THROUGH THE AIR TO THE NORTH POLE UNDER THE OCEAN TO THE SOUTH POLE FIVE THOUSAND MILES UNDERGROUND THROUGH SPACE TO MARS LOST ON THE MOON ON A TORN-AWAY WORLD DAVE DASHAWAY, THE YOUNG AVIATOR DAVE DASHAWAY AND HIS HYDROPLANE DAVE DASHAWAY AND HIS GIANT AIRSHIP DAVE DASHAWAY AROUND THE WORLD THE SPEEDWELL BOYS ON MOTOR CYCLES THE SPEEDWELL BOYS AND THEIR RACING AUTO THE SPEEDWELL BOYS AND THEIR POWER LAUNCH THE SPEEDWELL BOYS IN A SUBMARINE CONTENTS I. SHOT INTO THE AIR! II. MARK HANGS ON III. THIS FLIGHT OF THE "SNOWBIRD" IV. "WHO GOES THERE?" V. BETWEEN TWO PERILS VI. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND VII. DROPPED FROM THE SKY VIII. PHINEAS ROEBACH, OIL HUNTER IX. THE EARTHQUAKE X. THE BLACK DAY XI. THE WONDERFUL LEAP XII. THE GEYSER XIII. NATURE GONE MAD XIV. ON THE WING AGAIN XV. A PLUNGE TO THE ICE XVI. PROFESSOR HENDERSON REVEALS THE TRUTH XVII. ON AN ISLAND IN THE AIR XVIII. IMPRISONED IN THE ICE XIX. A NIGHT ATTACK XX. THE HEROISM OF THE SHANGHAI ROOSTER XXI. MARK ON GUARD XXII. THE WOLF TRAIL XXIII. THE FIGHT AT ALEUKAN XXIV. THE FLIGHT TOWARD THE COAST XXV. THE HERD of KADIAKS XXVI. THE ABANDONED CITY XXVII. THE WHALE HUNT ASHORE XXVIII. ON THE WHALING BARK XXIX. WHEN THE SEA ROLLED BACK XXX. AN ENDURING MONUMENT--CONCLUSION CHAPTER I SHOT INTO THE AIR "Hurrah!" shouted Jack Darrow, flicking the final drops of lacquer from the paintbrush he had been using. "That's the last stroke. She's finished!" "I guess we've done all we can to her before her trial trip," admitted his chum, Mark Sampson, but in a less confident tone. "You don't see anything wrong with her, old croaker; do you?" demanded Jack, laughing as usual. "'The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof; not in chewing the pudding bag string'," quoted Mark, still with a serious countenance. But like Jack he stood off from the great body of the wonderful airship, and looked the completed task over with some satisfaction. Having emergency wings, she was also a plane. She was white all over and her name was the _Snowbird_. Jack and Mark had spent most of their time during this vacation from their college in building this flying machine, which was veritably an up-to-the-minute aerial vehicle, built for both speed and carrying capacity.