Part 20 (1/2)
Perry and Cub
”Oh, co spokes a pace nearer ”Tell us how many went away in your boat and how soon they'll be back”
”There was a largeboy,” Bud interposed with rins crept over the countenances of the four runted the spokesman; ”you hope by that kind o' talk to scare us away Well, nothin' doing along that line This here island belongs to us, and we don't allow no trespassin”
”Is the island for sale?” inquired Hal, who thought he saw an opening through which hetheir antagonism
”Fer sale?” repeated the spokes theuess nit They ain't enough money this side o' the United States treasury to buy this island froht be able to scrape up a handsoestion of covetous greed shone in the eyes of all four :
”Nothin' doing We want you guys to git out o' here This is our su-arrien'lemen of leisure an' don't care fer money All ant is our own, and they's sure to be trouble if anybody tries to take it away fro to us,” was Bud's reassuring answer; ”and if this island is yours, we surely don't want to stay here But we thought that lad to sell, for a member of our party said he'd like to buy all of the islands of this group if he could find the owner”
”Who is he?” asked the quartet's spokeso, New York,” Bud replied
”Well, you all go somewheres else to talk that ent Meanwhile I don't allow no trespassers on this ground”
”But we can't go until our friends come back with their boat,” said Hal
”They proo?”
”To the Canadian Coast”
”What fer?”
”To get another friend ill join us”
”Well, they'd better hurry up or they won't find you when they get back”
”What's that you got there?” asked thethe radio table and outfit thereon
”That's a wireless outfit, you goof,” replied the tall, angular spokes inspiration from the attention thus called to his radio apparatus ”We'll call our friends by wireless and have theht,” was the assenting response ”Go ahead, but be careful, no tricks, or our revenge will be speedy, and that's no na the four ence inspired by a sense of danger and, at the same time, a sense of the opportunity afforded by the possibilities of the world's latest great invention, radio
CHAPTER XIX
”S O S” from Friday Island