The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition

should be talking about

, Dad. Why

nce with a man who knows all there is to

ee boys in turn. They were his son, Jack, and the latter's chums, Bob Temple and Frank Merrick,

erica, after finding and losing "The Enchanted City of the Incas" as told of in "The Radio B

at was this ma

tell us," added Fra

countered Mr. Hampton. "I stood in the doorway u

ls," said big Bob, grumblingly, "And the fellow that w

mpton

do. The facts aren't generally known. However, wait a minute until I get

aid Jack. "Doesn't

ther. "The rains are necessary, and, really, they

. "I'd think these peop

into his smoking jacket and slippers. "What

ack leaned fo

u a bit about it," said his

pedition" so-called, the expedition headed by Thorwald Thorwaldsson, the Norwegian explorer, which had outfitted at

aterfront. Some said confidently that the expedition was going to attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane, for an airplane was carried dismantled on the schooner. Others declared the object sought was gold. And, in this regard, the v

the expedition never was made public, for the very good reason that none of those

asked Jack, with

odded, and sm

Hampton, tell

riosity," advised big Bob. "Show that boy a secr

k, indignantly. "I suppose you

ton inte

ou boys are eager to know the answer to the mystery of the 'Lo

ed. The

il

il

breath. Big Bob was no less inquisitive than the oth

mpton

he said

ng his thoughts. Then he leaned forw

her men struggling through incalculable hardships to win their way to the North Pole, to the top of the world, or else fighting

ing of this matter. Here, far away in the Northland, in a remote district to which so far as known only two white men have ever penetrated, lies a mighty river flowing north into the Arctic O

eezes, Dad?" said Jack. "Do y

k, whose quick mind had seized upon

mpton

ow north is undoubted. That it never freezes, however, is an exaggeration. The truth i

of which are vast deposits of copper that some day, undoubtedly, will be opened up to exploitation. However, this other northward-flowing river in the midst of a v

s river was known to two wh

on the trip to the outside, and Farrell alone lived despite incredible hardships, to finally reach

closed until he got in touch with Anderson, the big man of the syndicate. Anderson saw at once the importance of the find. But he also saw that Farrell's marvelous oil field would virtually have to be rediscovered before steps to develop it could be taken. For, in struggling through to the outside, Fa

ce the footsteps of Farrell and Cameron into the Arctic in the hope of thus once more coming upon the oil

had been eyeing his father clo

hat, Dad?"

Expedition' and try to relocate the oil fields as well

k, in a tone of satisfac

ke that. Just as cool as you plea

, imperturbably, not one whit dis

on shook

Certainly, I have no intention of going at once. If I g

ppose, I'm to r

u should miss the balance of the term. I'll tell you what," he added, taking pity on the three, "if you fellows go back to college and st

ed Jack. "Tha