“Don’t see how it could be better.”
“Then you think you can get him?”
“Don’t see why not. It’s the best bet you’ve got, and I think it will work. That is unless he’s got a faster machine than I have, and I don’t think it has been made yet,” he added with a note of pride.
When the captain showed Captain Brice the pocket radios he looked at them in wonder.
“Do you mean to tell me that you made these and that they’ll work?” he asked, turning to Bob.
“Sure they made them, and that’s nothing compared to some other things they’ve invented. Why, you ought to see a new cell that they run their motor cycles and motor boat and auto with. As inventors they’ve got Edison backed off the mat,” and the captain looked at the boys with pride.
“And are they the boys who helped you out last summer with the moonshiners?”
“They sure are!”
“Then I’ve heard a lot about you,” Captain Brice said, turning to the boys. “Last winter Jim could talk of nothing else.”
“I’m afraid the Captain is inclined to exaggerate,” Bob stammered.