Part 8 (2/2)

”Do you know, I don't feel nearly so an,” Bud announced

”It's thetheir work in,” Cub explained with a wink

”It sounds funny, and yet, I can't help feeling there's so to it,”

Hal re his feet down froh noise to rivet a conclusion; ”you may call it addition, or subtraction, or ono to oes”

He snapped the aerial switch into sending, began to ”jiggle” the key alphabetically, and the spark leaped with successive spits across the gap

”Cub's got his goat back,” Hal rerinned and nodded his concurrence

CHAPTER VIII

Mathe proved to be a poor time for communication by radio for two reasons First, the atmosphere arm, a poor condition for the transht tis Second, co in at this tih vacation had arrived and closed the schoolhouse doors

Cub kept up his efforts for an hour, with virtually no success Although he succeeded in co with half a dozen ”haes that passed between the Catwhisker boys and the two Canadian radio contestants, and he was able to throw no light on the ”, and joined the other Catwhiskerites on deck for a period of sightseeing enjoy the islandshere and there to inspect so various places exploited for gain by private interests as centers of entertainated Wellesly Island,short stops at several points of interest and at about 4:30 p by a low-limbed tamarack and cast their baited fishhooks into the water for a ”brain-food” supper

This was not more than half a ht in the Thousand Islands The finny fellows bit greedily and in a short tih black bass and pickerel to feed a party twice the size of theirs

After supper all repaired to the cabin, and the boys donned phones, while Cub started a broadcasting ca the two Canadian wireless contestants, who seemed to have made a trio of monkeys out of the three radio motor-boat boys

”I haven't much idea what kind of questions to ask or what kind of answers to expect,” he said to his couess”

He had selected an inter stations were quiet, and then gave the general call and sent out the following:

”I want help to identify and locate an aured in mysterious radio affair in last two days He said his naston, that his call was V A X, and that he was marooned on island in St Lawrence River Can anybody help me? Call A V L”

Immediately three amateurs, two in Canada and one in New York State, cla Cub wrote down their calls and then took on the one in Kingston first

”There is no such aston,” the latter announced ”I know them all here V A X is held by somebody in Port Hope I listened-in to a lot of that stuff and called up three amateurs in Port Hope I learned that A V L is Alvin Baker who is attending Edwards College”

”Why, he's my cousin!”

This exclamation from Hal created a real sensation in the cabin of the Catwhisker Meanwhile Bud had been taking the hand in order to preserve a record of the investigation, so that Mr Perry, who read as the boys wrote, got the progress of events about as rapidly as did the three youthful experts It is needless to say that he was as much astonished as were his boy companions

But there was no time now for a discussion of faasps and exclaain to the business of their radio investigation

That was about the extent of the inforston amateur was able to communicate to them, except that he had been an interested listener-in to much of the code conversations between the would-be rescuers and the two very strange radio contestants He, however, proain if he learned anything that ht be of interest to theht when you told us how to go about to solve this ood night) to the Kingston amateur