where do we g

the mountain beyond the Alaskan outpost and at Mr. Hampton deep in conversation with a short sturdy figure of a man, clad in khaki breeches, hi

d were perspiring. Only an hour before they had been put ashore by the steamer from Seattle, and Mr. Hampton had left them on th

Frank's question. "Well, if you ask me, al

the little town sprawling a

d of Nome all my life, it seems, and now, just

Frank. "Don't judge by appearances too much.

lking about," said Jack,

king for the first time. "At any rate," he added, "I see your fath

, for Mr. Hampton and his companion ended

all around. The latter was a prepossessing man with a weather-beaten face and a grizzl

added, "has stated casually around Nome that he is taking a party of hunters up the MacKenzie. We'll get away at once, as nothing is to

um n

rinning. "No use letting the c

its screw began to turn. As the little vessel began to throb and draw away from Nome, the boys leaned overside and watched the

at last, "we're off f

up from Seattle, I felt as if I were nothing more than a touris

k and throbbed and steadily pushed its way up the coast, each bo

up for lost time in the first half of the term. All three were clever and had the knack of concentrating at their tasks, and all as a consequence had succeeded in making up back work in classroom a

rank, Mr. Temple's ward, should be permitted to accompany Mr. Hampton on his trip to attempt to find some

at we will run any danger. Our greatest danger, of course, would be to become trapped in the Far North in the Fall and be prevented by the rigors

plan is for us to push up the MacKenzie to one of its tributaries, and then strike eastward. We will leave the gasoline schooner to make its

ings of approaching Winter come, we will turn t

t and teach them to depend upon themselves. Not that they are not in a fair way to be youths of that sort alread

htly, and smiling. "Several years ago, that time when yo

d," supplied

d the very same Summer, when I took them to San Francisco on what I considered was g

inese smugglers, and imprisoned, and

he whole outfit into the hands of Uncle Sam's men. Wel

right to take them along on

my doubts. I have my doubts. Wherever those three boys are found, there y

t radio enthusiast, was all for packing up radio field equipment of every sort right at home. But his father had dissuaded him, pointing out that Seattle was a lar

e fellows and me. We've had a lot of experience with the value of radio when in a tight place, especially i

he three boys had revelled in the radio equipment stores, which they foun

yet most compact, designs. For while Mr. Hampton fully realized the value of hav

d the purpose of our expedition," he had said. "So don't pile u

input of initial current. Therefore, as a means of sending messages, supposedly for aid, over long distances, the wireless telegraph would be the better, inasmuch as equipment

depend upon wireless telegraph. But we will also need the radiophone for this reason: that each one of us ought to have a me

er had agreed. "Go ahead with your pla

nd for Farnum, which the user could pack in his clothing and which had a radius up to twenty-five miles. The instrument was Jack's now famous ring radio, worn on the finge

n was stricken down by a plague, which seems hardly likely, as in that case surely somebody would have managed to get word to the outside b

, in surprise. "That's t

ght be the case, and also his first intimation that there were hostile Indians in this country into which we are going. If it weren't too late, he t

"this sounds inter

began t

r a fight," said Frank. "

he big fellow and a tussle followed that e