The Boy Inventor's Wireless Triumph
Each clasped the gas-gun ready for instant use.
RICHARD BONNER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES L. WRENN
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
Copyright 1929
M. A. Donohue & Company
Made in the U. S. A.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Boy Inventor’s Wireless Triumph
The book Jack Chadwick had been reading,—a volume dealing with some rather dry experimental work,—slipped from his fingers and fell with a crash on the floor of the veranda. At the sudden interruption to the sleepy, breathless calm of Lone Island on a July noon, his cousin Tom Jesson, sixteen, and more than a year Jack’s junior, looked up from the steamer chair in which he, too, was extended, with one of his quiet smiles.
Richard Bonner
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The Boy Inventor’s Wireless Triumph
CHAPTER I—THE WIRELESS AT LONE ISLAND
CHAPTER II—THE MYSTERIOUS X. Y. Z.
CHAPTER III—THE CIPHER CODE
CHAPTER IV—A MARINE GAME OF BLIND-MAN’S BUFF
CHAPTER V—A SHOT IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER VI—NED BANGS’ STORY
CHAPTER VII—THE THREE COLORED GEMS
CHAPTER VIII—ON BOARD “THE TARANTULA”
CHAPTER IX—THE CHADWICK GAS GUNS
CHAPTER X—DRAWING A RASCAL’S FANGS
CHAPTER XI—THE “FLYING ROAD RACER”
CHAPTER XII—HERRERA IS NOT CAUGHT NAPPING
CHAPTER XIII—A DARING PLAN
CHAPTER XIV—A MESSAGE FROM THE AIR
CHAPTER XV—A DASH ALOFT
CHAPTER XVI—INTO THE ENEMY’S CAMP
CHAPTER XVII—“DAD!—IT’S JACK!”
CHAPTER XVIII—HEMMED IN BY FLAMES
CHAPTER XIX—“STAND BY FOR A ROPE!”
CHAPTER XX—A RESCUE BY AIRSHIP
CHAPTER XXI—ALOFT IN THE STORM
CHAPTER XXII—A VOYAGE OF TERROR
CHAPTER XXIII—THE BOY INVENTORS SOLVE A PROBLEM
CHAPTER XXIV—AN APPEAL FOR HELP
CHAPTER XXV—“IT’S DEATH TO REMAIN HERE!”
CHAPTER XXVI—AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY