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    [Illustration: TOM SPEEDILY GAVE THE CALL TO THE STATION AT THE
    DIXON PLACE.]




THE BOYS OF THE WIRELESS

Or

A Stirring Rescue from the Deep

BY

FRANK V. WEBSTER

AUTHOR OF "AIRSHIP ANDY," "COMRADES OF THE SADDLE,"
"BEN HARDY'S FLYING MACHINE," "BOB THE CASTAWAY," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS




BOOKS FOR BOYS

By FRANK V. WEBSTER

12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.

ONLY A FARM BOY
TOM, THE TELEPHONE BOY
THE BOY FROM THE RANCH
THE YOUNG TREASURE HUNTER
BOB, THE CASTAWAY
THE YOUNG FIREMEN OF LAKEVILLE
THE NEWSBOY PARTNERS
THE BOY PILOT OF THE LAKES
THE TWO BOY GOLD MINERS
JACK, THE RUNAWAY
COMRADES OF THE SADDLE
THE BOYS OF BELLWOOD SCHOOL
THE HIGH SCHOOL RIVALS
BOB CHESTER'S GRIT
AIRSHIP ANDY
DARRY, THE LIFE SAVER
DICK, THE BANK BOY
BEN HARDY'S FLYING MACHINE
THE BOYS OF THE WIRELESS
HARRY WATSON'S HIGH SCHOOL DAYS

Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York




Copyright, 1912, by
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
THE BOYS OF THE WIRELESS




Contents


  - CHAPTER I--TOM BARNES' WIRELESS
  - CHAPTER II--STATION Z
  - CHAPTER III--"SPOOKS!"
  - CHAPTER IV--"DONNER"
  - CHAPTER V--A BOY WITH A MYSTERY
  - CHAPTER VI--A TIP VIA WIRELESS
  - CHAPTER VII--GRACE MORGAN
  - CHAPTER VIII--QUICK ACTION
  - CHAPTER IX--STRICTLY BUSINESS
  - CHAPTER X--A YOUNG CAPITALIST
  - CHAPTER XI--A GREAT STEP FORWARD
  - CHAPTER XII--"SUN, MOON AND STARS"
  - CHAPTER XIII--THE BLACK CAPS
  - CHAPTER XIV--TURNING THE TABLES
  - CHAPTER XV--AN UNEXPECTED RESCUER
  - CHAPTER XVI--KIDNAPPED
  - CHAPTER XVII--UP TO MISCHIEF
  - CHAPTER XVIII--THE TOY BALLOONS
  - CHAPTER XIX--A STARTLING MESSAGE
  - CHAPTER XX--THE LAUNCH
  - CHAPTER XXI--BRAVING THE STORM
  - CHAPTER XXII--THE RESCUE
  - CHAPTER XXIII--"EVERY INCH A MAN"
  - CHAPTER XXIV--THE KIDNAPPED BOY
  - CHAPTER XXV--TOM ON THE TRAIL--CONCLUSION




THE BOYS OF THE WIRELESS




CHAPTER I--TOM BARNES' WIRELESS


"What's that new-fangled thing on the blasted oak, Tom?"

"That, Ben, is a wireless."

"Oh, you don't say so!"

"Or, rather the start of one."

"Say, you aren't original or ambitious or anything like that, are you?"

The speaker, Ben Dixon, bestowed a look of admiration and interest on
the chum he liked best of all in the world, Tom Barnes.

Tom was reckoned a genius in the little community in which he lived. He
had the record of "always being up to something." In the present
instance he had been up a tree, it seemed. From "the new-fangled thing"
Ben had discovered in passing the familiar landmark, the blasted oak,
wires and rods ran up to quite a height, showing that some one had done
some climbing.

Ben became instantly absorbed in an inspection of the contrivance before
him. He himself had some mechanical talent. His father had been an
inventor in a small way, and anything in which Tom had a part always
attracted him.

"Tell me about it. What's that thing up there?" asked Ben, pointing
directly at some metal rods attached to the broken-off top of the tree.

"Those are antennae."

"Looks like an--twenty!" chuckled Ben over his own joke. "There's a
whole network of them, isn't there?"

"They run down to a relay, Ben, catching the electric waves striking the
decoherer, which taps the coherer and disarranges a lot of brass filings
by mechanical vibration. That's the whole essence of the
wireless--otherwise it is no different from common telegraphy--a group
of parts each for individual service in transmitting or receiving the
electric waves."

"Thank you!" observed Ben drily. "How delightfully plain that all is!
You rattle those