"But this message didn't come from Staten Island," said Henry. "The detector points straight east over Brooklyn, and the message was sent from a long way off. It was very faint."
CHAPTER VIII
WHERE MONEY TALKED
For a full minute the members of the wireless patrol stared at one another in speechless amazement. Then Willie broke the silence.
"I don't care where it came from," he said. "I just know that the man we were watching sent it."
"But how could he have sent it, when the wireless pointed to Brooklyn?" demanded Henry.
"Oh! I don't mean that he actually sent it with his own fingers," said Willie. "But we saw him watching the ships and there isn't any other place in the whole harbor where you can get such a good view of them. I just know he had something to do with that message."
"I'll bet the Germans have got a string of wireless outfits and that what he does is to stay in that house and spy on ships that pass through the Narrows and then telephone to one of these secret wireless stations," said the nimble-witted Roy. "And if that's the case he hasn't any wireless at all himself."
"If Roy is right," said Henry, "it's a pretty clever scheme. The secret service could take his house to pieces and not find a wire in it. Yet he's the man that's sending the messages, or at least starting them."