The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass; Or, The Midnight Call for Assistance

"Nothing to do till tomorrow!" sang out Bob Layton, as he came out of high school at Clintonia on Friday afternoon, his books slung over his shoulder, and bounded down the steps...

"I'm sure I can't tell you how I thank you," he declared, with a cordiality and heartiness that they had never yet seen in him. "This matter was one of the most important that h...

The sun had gone down before the radio boys left the woods, and it was full night by the time they reached their homes and disburdened themselves of their load of nuts.

Skillfully Bob tapped out the message and in an inconceivably small space of time it had been received by the station HRSA and relayed to H. & D. The boys would have been intere...

"Here he is," and Mr. Layton, who had been attracted to the door by Mr. Looker's loud and angry tones, emerged on to the porch. "What can I do for you, Mr. Looker?"

Frantically Bob grasped the knob of the front door. The door was locked. He threw himself against it, but his weight was not sufficient, and although the door groaned it refused...

It was a simple matter for the boys to wind the loop aerial, for they had become expert in the manipulation of wire, tape, and the numerous other accessories that go with the ar...

Inside of half an hour the boys were on a friendly footing with the young operator and felt as though they had known him a long time. He was only a few years older than themselv...

The radio boys saw Buck Looker often--all too often--in the days that followed. As the boys had feared, Buck and his crowd were staying at the Mountain Rest Hotel, and it was al...

"Say, old boy," said Joe in an awed voice, "that sure is some swell idea. But do you think we could swing it? We know a lot about receiving, but when it comes to sending----"

Mrs. Layton uttered a scream, and the others looked at each other a second with blank faces. Then they jumped out and surrounded the unfortunate driver, who was gazing at his in...

There was a chorus of shouts as the boys felt themselves falling, followed by a heavy thud as they brought up on the floor of the attic in a blinding cloud of dust and plaster.

"No, of course I don't, stupid," she exclaimed. "But why can't you bring your old wireless things into the hotel parlor and let us all hear some music? We'd be ever so grateful...

"It's Buck Looker and his gang," replied his chum. "How in the world did they happen to get here just at this minute? Five minutes more and we'd have been gone."

True to Bob's prediction, the snowstorm proved to be a fierce one even for this season of unusual snows, and when the boys awoke the next morning they found that the ground had...

"Maybe this will lessen your grief," said Bob. "Eighty divided by four makes twenty, or at least that's what they always taught us in school. Take these four five-dollar bills,...

After that the boys saw a good deal of Edna and Ruth Salper. The latter were thoroughly good sports and entered into the fun of the moment with such enthusiasm that the radio bo...

As a matter of fact, the big hotel was even then looming before them, and in a moment more they entered its doors, to find to their delight that a roaring fire was burning in th...

That day and the next were busy ones for the radio boys. The party was to go in two big automobiles that Mr. Layton had hired, and the boys had secured permission to take a smal...

"Oh, yes, you were," scoffed Jimmy, who was eating more nuts than he saved. "You were thinking how lucky we are to be here picking nuts in the woods instead of slaving away in C...

It was heartbreaking work, for from that point on the road ascended steadily toward the top of the mountain, with hardly a level spot on it. A mile ahead lay the Pass, a narrow...

"Look!" he cried. "Didn't I tell you that radio was the best ever? Just cast your eye on that aerial. You don't see that trailing on the ground, do you?"

"I only wish we could get that loudspeaker to speak just a bit louder," said Herb. "It's only fair now, and those people will be expecting a lot, I suppose."

The radio boys had heard enough. Silently they tiptoed from their vantage point, putting off the tremendous desire to exclaim about what they had heard until they had put a good...

"So far, so good," breathed Bob happily, as the boys were discussing the news that Mrs. Salper had passed the crisis and was now probably on the road to recovery. "That's one th...