city. Once there he hurried over to the secret tower room, whe

"Smashed him up right? Bully for you. Tha

stated in modest, concise terms that the nuisance on 600 in the secret tower region was at an end; that the

datory message, congratulating him on his ach

ng mental notes from them, Curlie prepared to seek his bed

y of proof." He jerked a thumb toward the corner where was a box into which he had tossed the various small parts of a sending set and the nu

him such as he had never before experienced, an adventure which was destined to take him thousands of miles from th

also blissfully happy in the consciousness of havi

ike going before a king in some ways. In others I fancy it's more like meeting a lion in the street. Anyway, I've always

s smiled. "King, l

lion

nity is everywhere much the same and I fancy that's true even of very rich folks. They may try to bluff you with their power but if they find

hat's true. It would be a good thing for the world if

long to catch up my sleep. After that I'm going after that fellow who's breaking in on 1200, tha

after that offender on the 1200 meter wave lengths and then it w

he newsies crying their evening papers. For some time he lay there liste

ause he had heard it so often before, but no further coul

ll urchin shouted the words out

bout the mur-der-ed

n? Give me one of those papers." He tossed the boy a nickel and received a tightly wrapped p

could scarcely unroll th

red? Can it be Vincent Ardmore? Did a bullet from my aut

hind prison bars

out on his brow as he re

ORE'S SON BELI

e word as a camel in a desert snaps

umn through, then dropp

a shock!"

is work very early in the morning. The car, which was badly smashed up, bore the mark of a bullet in a rear tire and one in the lower part of the body. It wa

of the young man has yet been found, that he has been either kidnapped for ransom or,

etective has been put on the case. A reward of $5,000 has been offered by the father

rlie, mopping his br

t say one word about that wireless a

rinkled brow

millionaire, guessing that his son had been breaking radio laws, had all of that equipment removed befo

ed is about this, far as I can figure it out: Our young amateur radio friend, when his auto turned turtle, hiked off into the woods. For a time he stayed there. Then, when nothing happened for some time, he came sneaking back. When

the reward, but supposing something rea

officer of the law. I did what I did because a fellow was resisting arrest. Ho,