NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1914,
BY HURST & COMPANY
CONTENTS
- [I—AT SEA ONCE MORE]
- [II—WIRELESS CONVERSATIONS]
- [III—A STRANGE REQUEST]
- [IV—A PECULIAR COINCIDENCE]
- [V—THE INTERRUPTED MESSAGE]
- [VI—A DARING FEAT]
- [VII—QUARTERMASTER SCHULTZ VOLUNTEERS]
- [VIII—SAFE ONCE MORE]
- [IX—THE MIDNIGHT INTRUDER]
- [X—A MESSAGE IN SECRET CODE]
- [XI—WHAT SAM HEARD]
- [XII—A SUDDEN ALARM]
- [XIII—A DOSE OF SLEEPING POWDER]
- [XIV—THE WINKING EYE]
- [XV—SECRET SIGNALS AT DAWN]
- [XVI—S. O. S.]
- [XVII—A DERELICT OF THE SKIES]
- [XVIII—A LEAP FOR A LIFE]
- [XIX—A CALL IN THE NIGHT]
- [XX—TO THE RESCUE]
- [XXI—A TALE OF THE SEA]
- [XXII—A DECOY MESSAGE]
- [XXIII—FALSE FRIENDSHIP]
- [XXIV—KIDNAPPED]
- [XXV—SAM, A TRUE FRIEND]
- [XXVI—A WICKED PLAN]
- [XXVII—IN THE LION’S MOUTH]
- [XXVIII—A CLIMB FOR LIFE]
- [XXIX—FREEDOM ONCE MORE]
- [XXX—IN SEARCH FOR A CLEW]
- [XXXI—LOOK FOR A WHITE HORSE]
- [XXXII—A BOLD ROBBERY]
- [XXXIII—JARROLD AGAIN]
- [XXXIV—BAD NEWS FOR THE COLONEL]
- [XXXV—JARROLD GETS FRANTIC]
- [XXXVI—ADRIFT]
- [XXXVII—THE IRONY OF FATE]
- [XXXVIII—A BOLT FROM THE BLUE]
- [XXXIX—JACK’S RADIO]
- [XL—THE ANSWER TO THE WIRELESS CALL]
[CHAPTER I—AT SEA ONCE MORE]
The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New York millionaire, was plunging southward through a rolling green sea about two hundred miles to the east of Hatteras. It was evening and the bugle had just sounded for dinner.