CORNERED AT LAST.
“See any lights ahead?”
Half choked and blinded by the spray, Nat put the question to Nate as
under reduced speed the _Nomad_ fought her way through the storm.
“Not yet, but I’m keeping a bright lookout for them.”
“That’s right. We ought to sight her before long, if she hasn’t gone
ashore.”
Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes passed and the stout little craft still
plunged forward in the night, at times almost entirely obscured by spume
and flying spray. With anxious eyes they peered through the blackness.
“She can’t have gone down!” suggested Nate in his blunt way.
“Oh, surely not that!” cried Nat. “There,—there,—look!”
“Good!” shouted Nate with stentorian lungs and sublime disregard of
grammar, “it’s her, for sure.”
Directly ahead of them a brilliant rocket had pierced the gloom of the
tempestuous night and burst in a shower of rubicund radiance high in
air.
“Hold the wheel, Nate, and head direct for her. I’m going to get busy
with the wireless!” cried Nat, and dived below.
Presently across the tossing waves a message went flashing to the
Lightship.
“_This is the_ Nomad. _We have seen your rocket. Will be alongside in a
short time._”
“_Bully for you_,” came back the blunt answer from old Captain
Braithwaite, “_we need you dern bad_.”
“_How did you get adrift?_” flashed Nat.
“_A schooner bumped into us and the force of the collision broke us
loose._”
“_What became of the schooner?_”
“_We rescued the crew but the craft is a wreck on the Pancake Shoals_,”
was the rejoinder.
Nat cut off the instruments and visited Joe with the news. Having
imparted his information to the young engineer, after bidding him pay
strict attention to signals from the bridge, he went on deck again. The
sea was still running high, but the wind appeared to be less boisterous.
Ahead of them the tossing lights of the Lightship could now be seen. He
took the wheel from Nate, tackling it with renewed vigor. The thought
that their wireless was to be the means of saving human lives inspired
him with a sort of desperate courage. Nat felt at that moment that he
could have dared anything and won out.
Another rocket cut the night and spattered against the black sky like an
egg chucked at a blackboard.
“There she goes!” cried Nate exultingly, and Nat, taking a chance,
signalled to Joe for more speed. Under her increased momentum the
_Nomad_ dived into the seas fearfully. Her occupants were doused from
head to foot, but at the moment they did not care about that. All their
energies were bent on reaching the side of the stricken Lightship as
quickly as possible.
“Go it! Whoop la! Beats automobiling!” yelled Nate in his excitement.
“Wow! what a dive!” cried Nat. “Go it, my beauty! Down we go!”
Then across the water came a rousing cheer as Nat snapped the switch
that turned on the _Nomad’s_ searchlight. The circle of light showed the
big Lightship tumbling about in the high seas as helplessly as a skiff.
The light showed, too, something else that gave Nat a wild thrill.
Leaning over the rail beside Captain Braithwaite was a familiar figure.
It was that of Israel Harley! Like a flash it dawned upon Nat that it
was his schooner that had collided with the Lightship and cut her
adrift. The storm, by a coincidence little short of miraculous, had
delivered his enemy into his hands!
* * * * *
It was the next morning and Santa Barbara was buzzing with excitement.
The storm had died out and the sea was calm and the air mild. Everyone
who could get there was on the waterfront gazing seaward. The wireless
had flashed ashore the story of the _Nomad’s_ daring rescue of the
Lightship, and the news had spread like wild fire.
With it, too, had come information for the authorities. Israel Harley
and his two sons, as well as two men who had formed the crew of the
wrecked schooner, were on board and under guard, and would be delivered
to the police as soon as the _Nomad_ and the cumbrous craft she was
towing arrived.
Among all the crowd there were none so excited as a red-headed youth
whom our readers will recognize as Pepper, and a lad with an impediment
in his speech, who couldn’t keep still a minute. Yes, the latter was
really Ding-dong Bell. It will be recalled that Ding-dong in his flight
from the lone ranch house stumbled into what appeared to be an
unfathomable pit. In reality it was a fish-pond, long unused, which was
partially filled up with soft sand and sea-weed. This broke the force of
his fall and, except for a few bruises, he was uninjured. He had,
however, to wait a long time before help arrived. But, thanks to his
lusty lungs, his cries for aid were heard by the police, who arrived at
the ranch-house while Minory and Dolliver were still searching for him.
Both men were arrested and Dolliver made a complete confession,
admitting that Minory and he had been friends in the east many years
before, and that knowledge of a crime he had committed in his youth had
given Minory a power over him which he could not resist. Minory
seemingly knew of Dolliver’s whereabouts and utilized his ranch as a
hiding place, holding Dolliver powerless by his knowledge of his past.
The model and the plans of the wireless torpedo were recovered, and
Ding-dong sent a message winging eastward to Professor Jenkins informing
him of their safety. We perhaps may look ahead a little here and inform
our readers that before many months had passed the Jenkins Wireless
Torpedo was an accomplished fact, with headquarters on Goat Island.
Prominent in the company formed to promote it were Nat Trevor, Joe
Hartley, and William Bell.
But that is decidedly looking into the future. Just at present we must
turn seaward and behold the _Nomad_ struggling like a pigmy ant with a
huge beetle at her task of bringing the Lightship into port. The
authorities had already sent for a tug to tow the guardian craft back to
the shoals, so that when the two vessels dropped anchor in the harbor,
the _Nomad’s_ part was over.
Two boats from the new arrivals were on their way shoreward when a
messenger thrust a note into Ding-dong’s hand. It was addressed to Joe
Hartley and was from the Chief of Police of the town. Ding-dong opened
it, as the messenger had informed him that it was for the first of the
three chums that he encountered.
“‘Thanks to your wireless, the two men who annoyed you have been
arrested,’” he read. “‘The criminal they warned is also under arrest. I
am authorized to inform you that a reward of five hundred dollars awaits
you for your clever work in their apprehension’.”
It may be said here that Joe devoted the reward to the education of
young Jim Dolliver, who, following the arrest of his father, was left
homeless. He was taken on as an assistant at Goat Island when the
Wireless Torpedo Company was formed and proved a valuable help to the
boys and their elders in their work.
As for Minory and the Harleys, they all received heavy sentences for
their evil doings, although the elder Harley and his sons did not
receive as heavy penalties as that meted out to Minory, who, it
transpired, had a long criminal record reaching back to his youth.
And now, amidst the enthusiastic crowd of their fellow townsmen, let us
for the present take our leave of the Motor Rangers. Their Wireless
Island, at first looked upon as a mere boyish freak, had proved its
value in no uncertain way, and certified the worth of their training in
the science of aerial telegraphy.
Busy, happy days lay ahead of them, and Goat Island,—its name now
changed to Wireless Island,—became the scene of activities which
attracted the attention of the scientific world. The wireless torpedo is
now an assured success, and, thanks to the boys, the United States is
the only country which possesses its secret. Had Minory and the
promoters back of him succeeded in filching the secret, it was their
intention to sell the valuable implement of war to a foreign power which
had offered a large sum for it.
The boys often talk of that first message that came to them that drowsy
afternoon when it seemed that there was, to use Joe’s phrase, “nothing
doing.” The remarkable series of adventures that grew out of that sharp
summons to the _Iroquois_ forms a never-failing topic of conversation
with them and with their friends.
And so, wishing the boys good fortune and pleasant times, we bring the
tale of their Wireless Island to a close. Ahead of them, along the trail
of life, lie new adventures and experiences in a novel field. Those who
choose to do so may read of these in a succeeding volume devoted to the
interests of the Motor Rangers.
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spoiling the zest of an exciting tale to reveal the outcome of all these
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well hidden for all that. A garrulous old sailor, who holds the key to
the mystery of the Golden Galleon, plays a large part in the development
of the plot of this fascinating narrative of treasure hunting in the
region of the Gulf Stream and the Sargasso Sea. An aeroplane fitted with
efficient pontoons—enabling her to skim the water successfully—has long
been a dream of aviators. The Chester Boys seem to have solved the
problem. The Sargasso, that strange drifting ocean within an ocean,
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The Boy Aviators in Record Flight
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The Chester Boys in new field of endeavor—an attempt to capture a
newspaper prize for a trans-continental flight. By the time these lines
are read, exactly such an offer will have been spread broadcast by one
of the foremost newspapers of the country. In the Golden Eagle, the
boys, accompanied by a trail-blazing party in an automobile, make the
dash. But they are not alone in their aspirations. Their rivals for the
rich prize at stake try in every way that they can to circumvent the
lads and gain the valuable trophy and monetary award. In this they stop
short at nothing, and it takes all the wits and resources of the Boy
Aviators to defeat their devices. Among the adventures encountered in
their cross-country flight, the boys fall in with a band of rollicking
cow-boys—who momentarily threaten serious trouble—are attacked by
Indians, strike the most remarkable town of the desert—the “dry” town of
“Gow Wells,” encounter a sandstorm which blows them into strange lands
far to the south of their course, and meet with several amusing mishaps
beside. A thoroughly readable book. The sort to take out behind the barn
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If you were to hear that two boys, accompanying a South Polar expedition
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regions—hitherto only attained by a few daring explorers—you would feel
interested, wouldn’t you? Well, in Captain Lawton’s latest book,
concerning his Boy Aviators, you can not only read absorbing adventure
in the regions south of the eightieth parallel, but absorb much useful
information as well. Captain Lawton introduces—besides the original
characters of the heroes—a new creation in the person of Professor
Simeon Sandburr, a patient seeker for polar insects. The professor’s
adventures in his quest are the cause of much merriment, and lead once
or twice to serious predicaments. In a volume so packed with incident
and peril from cover to cover—relieved with laughable mishaps to the
professor—it is difficult to single out any one feature; still, a recent
reader of it wrote the publishers an enthusiastic letter the other day,
saying: “The episodes above the Great Barrier are thrilling, the attack
of the condors in Patagonia made me hold my breath, the—but what’s the
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BEN STONE AT OAKDALE.
Under peculiarly trying circumstances Ben Stone wins his way at Oakdale
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respect. Through the enmity of Bern Hayden, the loyalty of Roger Eliot
and the clever work of the “Sleuth,” Ben is falsely accused, championed
and vindicated.
BOYS OF OAKDALE ACADEMY.
“One thing I will claim, and that is that all Grants fight open and
square and there never was a sneak among them.” It was Rodney Grant, of
Texas, who made the claim to his friend, Ben Stone, and this story shows
how he proved the truth of this statement in the face of apparent
evidence to the contrary.
RIVAL PITCHERS OF OAKDALE.
Baseball is the main theme of this interesting narrative, and that means
not only clear and clever descriptions of thrilling games, but an
intimate acquaintance with the members of the teams who played them. The
Oakdale Boys were ambitious and loyal, and some were even disgruntled
and jealous, but earnest, persistent work won out.
OAKDALE BOYS IN CAMP.
The typical vacation is the one that means much freedom, little
restriction, and immediate contact with “all outdoors.” These conditions
prevailed in the summer camp of the Oakdale Boys and made it a scene of
lively interest.
THE GREAT OAKDALE MYSTERY.
The “Sleuth” scents a mystery! He “follows his nose.” The plot thickens!
He makes deductions. There are surprises for the reader—and for the
“Sleuth,” as well.
NEW BOYS AT OAKDALE.
A new element creeps into Oakdale with another year’s registration of
students. The old and the new standards of conduct in and out of school
meet, battle, and cause sweeping changes in the lives of several of the
boys.
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FRANK ARMSTRONG’S VACATION.
How Frank’s summer experience with his boy friends make him into a
sturdy young athlete through swimming, boating, and baseball contests,
and a tramp through the Everglades, is the subject of this splendid
story.
FRANK ARMSTRONG AT QUEENS.
We find among the jolly boys at Queen’s School, Frank, the
student-athlete, Jimmy, the baseball enthusiast, and Lewis, the
unconsciously-funny youth who furnishes comedy for every page that bears
his name. Fall and winter sports between intensely rival school teams
are expertly described.
FRANK ARMSTRONG’S SECOND TERM.
The gymnasium, the track and the field make the background for the
stirring events of this volume, in which David, Jimmy, Lewis, the “Wee
One” and the “Codfish” figure, while Frank “saves the day.”
FRANK ARMSTRONG, DROP KICKER.
With the same persistent determination that won him success in swimming,
running and baseball playing, Frank Armstrong acquired the art of “drop
kicking,” and the Queen’s football team profits thereby.
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THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON BATTLE PRACTICE.
Especially interesting and timely is this book which introduces the
reader with its heroes, Ned and Herc, to the great ships of modern
warfare and to the intimate life and surprising adventures of Uncle
Sam’s sailors.
THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ABOARD A DESTROYER.
In this story real dangers threaten and the boys’ patriotism is tested
in a peculiar international tangle. The scene is laid on the South
American coast.
THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON A SUBMARINE.
To the inventive genius—trade-school boy or mechanic—this story has
special charm, perhaps, but to every reader its mystery and clever
action are fascinating.
THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS ON AERO SERVICE.
Among the volunteers accepted for Aero Service are Ned and Herc. Their
perilous adventures are not confined to the air, however, although they
make daring and notable flights in the name of the Government; nor are
they always able to fly beyond the reach of their old “enemies,” who are
also airmen.
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THE BUNGALOW BOYS.
How the Bungalow Boys received their title and how they retained the
right to it in spite of much opposition makes a lively narrative for
lively boys.
THE BUNGALOW BOYS MAROONED IN THE TROPICS.
A real treasure hunt of the most thrilling kind, with a sunken Spanish
galleon as its object, makes a subject of intense interest at any time,
but add to that a band of desperate men, a dark plot and a devil fish,
and you have the combination that brings strange adventures into the
lives of the Bungalow Boys.
THE BUNGALOW BOYS IN THE GREAT NORTH WEST.
The clever assistance of a young detective saves the boys from the
clutches of Chinese smugglers, of whose nefarious trade they know too
much. How the Professor’s invention relieves a critical situation is
also an exciting incident of this book.
THE BUNGALOW BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES.
The Bungalow Boys start out for a quiet cruise on the Great Lakes and a
visit to an island. A storm and a band of wreckers interfere with the
serenity of their trip, and a submarine adds zest and adventure to it.
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By MARVIN WEST.
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THE MOTOR RANGERS’ LOST MINE.
This is an absorbing story of the continuous adventures of a motor car
in the hands of Nat Trevor and his friends. It does seemingly impossible
“stunts,” and yet everything happens “in the nick of time.”
THE MOTOR RANGERS THROUGH THE SIERRAS.
Enemies in ambush, the peril of fire, and the guarding of treasure make
exciting times for the Motor Rangers—yet there is a strong flavor of fun
and freedom, with a typical Western mountaineer for spice.
THE MOTOR RANGERS ON BLUE WATER; or, The Secret of the Derelict.
The strange adventures of the sturdy craft “Nomad” and the stranger
experiences of the Rangers themselves with Morello’s schooner and a
mysterious derelict form the basis of this well-spun yarn of the sea.
THE MOTOR RANGERS’ CLOUD CRUISER.
From the “Nomad” to the “Discoverer,” from the sea to the sky, the scene
changes in which the Motor Rangers figure. They have experiences “that
never were on land or sea,” in heat and cold and storm, over mountain
peak and lost city, with savages and reptiles; their ship of the air is
attacked by huge birds of the air; they survive explosion and
earthquake; they even live to tell the tale!
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By FREMONT B. DEERING.
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THE BORDER BOYS ON THE TRAIL.
What it meant to make an enemy of Black Ramon De Barios—that is the
problem that Jack Merrill and his friends, including Coyote Pete, face
in this exciting tale.
THE BORDER BOYS ACROSS THE FRONTIER.
Read of the Haunted Mesa and its mysteries, of the Subterranean River
and its strange uses, of the value of gasolene and steam “in running the
gauntlet,” and you will feel that not even the ancient splendors of the
Old World can furnish a better setting for romantic action than the
Border of the New.
THE BORDER BOYS WITH THE MEXICAN RANGERS.
As every day is making history—faster, it is said, than ever before—so
books that keep pace with the changes are full of rapid action and
accurate facts. This book deals with lively times on the Mexican border.
THE BORDER BOYS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS.
The Border Boys have already had much excitement and adventure in their
lives, but all this has served to prepare them for the experiences
related in this volume. They are stronger, braver and more resourceful
than ever, and the exigencies of their life in connection with the Texas
Rangers demand all their trained ability.
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Stories of Skill and Ingenuity
By RICHARD BONNER
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THE BOY INVENTORS’ WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.
Blest with natural curiosity,—sometimes called the instinct of
investigation,—favored with golden opportunity, and gifted with creative
ability, the Boy Inventors meet emergencies and contrive mechanical
wonders that interest and convince the reader because they always “work”
when put to the test.
THE BOY INVENTORS’ VANISHING-GUN.
A thought, a belief, an experiment; discouragement, hope, effort and
final success—this is the history of many an invention; a history in
which excitement, competition, danger, despair and persistence figure.
This merely suggests the circumstances which draw the daring Boy
Inventors into strange experiences and startling adventures, and which
demonstrate the practical use of their vanishing gun.
THE BOY INVENTORS’ DIVING TORPEDO BOAT.
As in the previous stories of the Boy Inventors, new and interesting
triumphs of mechanism are produced which become immediately valuable,
and the stage for their proving and testing is again the water. On the
surface and below it, the boys have jolly, contagious fun, and the story
of their serious, purposeful inventions challenge the reader’s deepest
attention.
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College Life Stories for Girls
By NELL SPEED.
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MOLLY BROWN’S FRESHMAN DAYS.
Would you like to admit to your circle of friends the most charming of
college girls—the typical college girl for whom we are always looking
but not always finding; the type that contains so many delightful
characteristics, yet without unpleasant perfection in any; the natural,
unaffected, sweet-tempered girl, loved because she is lovable? Then seek
an introduction to Molly Brown. You will find the baggage-master, the
cook, the Professor of English Literature, and the College President in
the same company.
MOLLY BROWN’S SOPHOMORE DAYS.
What is more delightful than a reunion of college girls after the summer
vacation? Certainly nothing that precedes it in their experience—at
least, if all class-mates are as happy together as the Wellington girls
of this story. Among Molly’s interesting friends of the second year is a
young Japanese girl, who ingratiates her “humbly” self into everybody’s
affections speedily and permanently.
MOLLY BROWN’S JUNIOR DAYS.
Financial stumbling blocks are not the only things that hinder the ease
and increase the strength of college girls. Their troubles and their
triumphs are their own, often peculiar to their environment. How
Wellington students meet the experiences outside the class-rooms is
worth the doing, the telling and the reading.
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By MARGARET BURNHAM.
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THE GIRL AVIATORS AND THE PHANTOM AIRSHIP.
Roy Prescott was fortunate in having a sister so clever and devoted to
him and his interests that they could share work and play with mutual
pleasure and to mutual advantage. This proved especially true in
relation to the manufacture and manipulation of their aeroplane, and
Peggy won well deserved fame for her skill and good sense as an aviator.
There were many stumbling-blocks in their terrestrial path, but they
soared above them all to ultimate success.
THE GIRL AVIATORS ON GOLDEN WINGS.
That there is a peculiar fascination about aviation that wins and holds
girl enthusiasts as well as boys is proved by this tale. On golden wings
the girl aviators rose for many an exciting flight, and met strange and
unexpected experiences.
THE GIRL AVIATORS’ SKY CRUISE.
To most girls a coaching or yachting trip is an adventure. How much more
perilous an adventure a “sky cruise” might be is suggested by the title
and proved by the story itself.
THE GIRL AVIATORS’ MOTOR BUTTERFLY.
The delicacy of flight suggested by the word “butterfly,” the mechanical
power implied by “motor,” the ability to control assured in the title
“aviator,” all combined with the personality and enthusiasm of girls
themselves, make this story one for any girl or other reader “to go
crazy over.”
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Wholesome Stories of Adventure
By KATHERINE STOKES.
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THE MOTOR MAIDS’ SCHOOL DAYS.
Billie Campbell was just the type of a straightforward, athletic girl to
be successful as a practical Motor Maid. She took her car, as she did
her class-mates, to her heart, and many a grand good time did they have
all together. The road over which she ran her red machine had many an
unexpected turning,—now it led her into peculiar danger; now into
contact with strange travelers; and again into experiences by fire and
water. But, best of all, “The Comet” never failed its brave girl owner.
THE MOTOR MAIDS BY PALM AND PINE.
Wherever the Motor Maids went there were lively times, for these were
companionable girls who looked upon the world as a vastly interesting
place full of unique adventures—and so, of course, they found them.
THE MOTOR MAIDS ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
It is always interesting to travel, and it is wonderfully entertaining
to see old scenes through fresh eyes. It is that privilege, therefore,
that makes it worth while to join the Motor Maids in their first
’cross-country run.
THE MOTOR MAIDS BY ROSE, SHAMROCK AND HEATHER.
South and West had the Motor Maids motored, nor could their education by
travel have been more wisely begun. But now a speaking acquaintance with
their own country enriched their anticipation of an introduction to the
British Isles. How they made their polite American bow and how they were
received on the other side is a tale of interest and inspiration.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Italicized phrases are presented by surrounding the text with
_underscores_. Small capitals have been rendered in full capitals.
Punctuation has been standardized. Minor spelling and typographic
errors were corrected silently, except as noted below.
"some one" and "someone" appear several times each; it has been
standardized to "some one" which appears more frequently in books of
the time period.
On page 8, "employé" has been left as is; although that spelling is
not frequently used in that time period, it does occur occasionally.
On page 126, changed "Hartley" to "Harley", because several other
references to "Seth" and his father use "Harley".
Inconsistent use of the apostrophe in the names of book series in
the advertisements at the back of the book has been retained as in
the original publication.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station, by Marvin West