# The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine

Author: Theiss, Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin), 1878-1963

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55864

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Young+Wireless+Operator%E2%80%94Afloat+Or%2C+How+Roy+Mercer+Won+His+Spurs+in+the+Merchant+Marine+Theiss&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Roy Mercer sat by a window in a fast express-train that was rushing across the Newark meadows on the way to New York City. Three years previously Roy had made a similar trip. As he looked back now over those three years, it seemed to him impossible that so much could have happened in so short a time. When he had first crossed these same meadows the country was engaged in deadly warfare, and he had come, with other members of the Camp Brady Wireless Patrol, to help the government find the secret wireless system by which German spies were sending abroad information as to the movements of American troops and American transports. Long ago the wireless patrol had accomplished its work and gone...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV SOS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI A VISIT TO CHINATOWN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX THWARTING A WIRELESS INCENDIARY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII WHERE COTTON IS KING](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII A CLOSE CALL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X A LESSON IN DIPLOMACY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV IN LOWER NEW YORK](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII LAND AHEAD!](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III ROY’S FIRST FIRE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII BACK INTO THE STORM](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI LATITUDE 28--LONGITUDE 96](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I THE NEW WIRELESS MAN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI OFF TO SEA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII THE NIGHT’S WORK](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V A FRIEND IN NEED](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV A TRIP TO THE OIL FIELDS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II THE SECRET OF SUCCESS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII ROY GAINS ANOTHER FRIEND](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX VICTORY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-wireless-operator-afloat-or-how-roy-mercer-won-his-sp-a4d15e81/chapters/19/index.md)