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Pluck and Luck #139: Jack Wright and His Deep Sea Monitor

1901 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue presents the opening of a serialized adventure novel featuring Jack Wright, a teenage submarine inventor and millionaire residing in Wrightstown on the Atlantic coast. The narrative begins with Jack completing construction of a new submarine vessel called the Sea Serpent—a 100-foot-long monitor built from aluminum, equipped with pneumatic guns, a searchlight, and electric propulsion. That afternoon, Jack intervenes in a tavern brawl where a gang of drunken toughs is beating Timothy Topstay, an elderly crippled sailor and longtime family friend. With assistance from Fritz Schneider, a portly German-American boy, Jack drives off the attackers. The chapter concludes with Jack inviting both friends to witness the Sea Serpent's maiden trial the following day. A second chapter begins introducing a mysterious ministerial-looking stranger, Peleg Hopkins, who arrives by train. His intentions remain unclear, suggesting further complications ahead.

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“Jack Wright and His Deep Sea Monitor” · serial · p.2

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