The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph

The book Jack Chadwick had been reading,—a volume dealing with some rather dry experimental work,—slipped from his fingers and fell with a crash on the floor of the veranda. At...

Tom propounded the question ten minutes later as the two lads busied themselves in the after cabin of the _Vagrant_, stowing provisions hastily. “No, not a word. If only I could...

A sudden break in the rhythmic pulse of the engine reached Tom’s alert ears at this instant. Without speaking he hastened from the cabin to the engine-room, using, for this purp...

Jupe’s summons to supper ended the talk for the time being, and the two lads went below to eat a hearty meal while the colored man took a spell at the wheel. After supper they e...

He had hardly spoken before there came a crash of glass close to his hand, and something flew whistling by him. At the same instant the searchlight was extinguished, and from se...

It was Ned Bang’s, the boyish wireless operator of the _Sea King_, who met them at the head of the ladder. Behind him pressed a ring of curious faces, the bronzed countenances o...

“It was MacDuffy,” continued the lad, “who organized an expedition to go to your father’s rescue. There was MacDuffy, Captain Andrews, four seamen and myself. The rest were left...

“A few moments later,” continued Ned, “we were standing on the deck of the sinister-looking craft, confronted by her equally sinister-looking owner, for such we soon found he wa...

“Good. I’ve a notion they contain something that may prove valuable to us right now. Open them up and see if one of them contains some queer-looking guns. If it does, bring the...

It was Tom who spoke, and his voice broke the spell that had held all hands as they gazed at the silent craft drifting away from them into the darkness.

Leaving the _Tarantula_ to drift at her sweet will, all haste was made by the youthful adventurers in regaining the side of the _Sea King_. When they reascended to the deck of t...

It was noon of the next day when Captain Andrews announced that they were still some two hundred miles from their destination. But, as the boys were all three of them busy over...

“Jupe, go below and call Captain Andrews,” he said, in as calm a voice as he could muster. “We won’t risk landing and trying to lower the chain for two reasons. One is, that Her...

Fortunately, there was no ray of light visible about the _Vagrant_. The incandescents had been switched off in every part of her, with the exception of the engine room. In this...

“It will be safe enough to light up now, I guess,” announced Captain Andrews, when the anchorage had been accomplished. Jack had told him previously that they would need deck li...

Jack roughly estimated the combined weights of those they were to rescue,—his father, his uncle, Abner Jennings and the two sailors,—at a little over one thousand pounds. Thus,...

Jack gave a step forward the better to survey the scene before them. As he did so his right foot struck something, and the next instant there was a sudden sharp jangling of a bell.

“I wouldn’t be scared to trust myself to that aerial wind-jammer for a voyage to China,” stoutly declared Captain Andrews. “I reckon if Wellman had had a craft like that he’d ha...

This was the case with our party of adventurers. Added to this, was the horror of knowing that many of the negroes in the room below must have perished in the flames. Jack felt...

Just what happened in the moments that followed neither Jack nor any of his companions has ever been able to describe in detail. It was a time in which every second counted, whi...

In an almost unbelievably short time the wind had increased to a gale. It shrieked and moaned among the wire supports of the car, and the great bag that held it in mid-air swaye...

This dire prophecy was, however, not destined to be fulfilled. To the intense joy of the air travelers, the circular motion ceased almost as suddenly as it had begun, and the re...

But the gas had escaped so rapidly and the weight in the car was so great, that the island was still a few hundred feet off when they first felt the wind-driven spray dashing ag...

About the young inventors pressed the castaways,—for they had been awakened,—Captain Andrews, so that he might make an observation and get their exact position, and the rest to...

Jack struggled and strained at his bonds, as, in fact, all the rest of the party were doing. To his delight, after a brief period of struggling, he managed to loosen them consid...

As Jack spoke, the island gave another trembling shake. It was only a slight one, but it warned them that, in all probability, there were to be more violent shocks succeeding it.