Author of The Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec
The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket
The Motor Boat Club off Long Island, Etc.

Illustrated

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY


Copyright 1909, by Howard E. Altemus


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Spark Puts Three Boys and a Boat on the Jump [7]
II.Some of the Mystery Unraveled [26]
III.Invisible Hands at the Wireless [39]
IV.Taking a Great Chance [50]
V.Tom Matches One Trick With Another [61]
VI.Carrying Dangerous Live “Freight” [70]
VII.Powell Seaton’s Bad Case of “Forget” [78]
VIII.The Red Message [85]
IX.Mr. Seaton Unburdens Himself [92]
X.The Traitor at the Aerials [105]
XI.The Drab Boat Shows Her Nose [114]
XII.The Searchlight Finds a “Double” [127]
XIII.Tom Halstead—Ready! [139]
XIV.Grit Goes up the Signal Mast [151]
XV.Playing Salt Water Blind Man’s Buff [160]
XVI.A Gleam of Hope Through the Shroud of Fog [171]
XVII.When the Motor Boat Club Boys “Went Daffy” [179]
XVIII.The First Kink of the Problem Solved [187]
XIX.Helpless in the Northeaster! [196]
XX.“C.Q.D! C.Q.D.!—Help!” [207]
XXI.The Spark Finds a Friend Through the Gale [219]
XXII.Tom Halstead Springs the Climax [230]
XXIII.Hank Becomes Really Terrible [244]
XXIV.Conclusion [249]