Haas, Dorothy

After being orphaned at an early age and spending years in boarding schools, Dilly begins a new life in a real house in a small town, developing secret magnetic powers under the tutelage of a kindly professor, until he is kidnapped by a madman who plans to control the world with a computer.

When Burton invents a machine to make people laugh, it arouses curiosity and greed in the evil Professor Savvy. Sequel to "Burton's zoom zoom va-room machine.".