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Title: The Secret Wireless
or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol

Author: Lewis E. Theiss

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Language: English

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THE SECRET WIRELESS

or

The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol

by

LEWIS E. THEISS

Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill

[Frontispiece: no caption]

W. A. Wilde Company
Boston ------ Chicago
Copyrighted, 1918,
by W. A. Wilde Company
All rights reserved

THE SECRET WIRELESS

To

WALTER K. RHODES, A.M., E.E.,

PROFESSOR OF ELECTRO-TECHNICS
IN BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY,

TO WHOSE KINDLY HELPFULNESS IS DUE
WHATEVER OF TECHNICAL MERIT THERE
MAY BE IN THIS AND COMPANION STORIES
OF THE "WIRELESS,"

This Book is Dedicated

Contents

I. WHAT CAME OF HENRY'S IDEA
II. HENRY OVERCOMES AN OBSTACLE
III. THE WIRELESS PATROL PREPARES FOR ACTION
IV. THE SCENE OF ACTION
V. THE MESSAGE IN CIPHER
VI. A NEW DANGER POINT
VII. CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED
VIII. WHERE MONEY TALKED
IX. A FRESH START
X. THE PURSUIT IN THE DARK
XI. AN UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH
XII. ANOTHER OBSTACLE
XIII. WHAT HENRY DISCOVERED
XIV. THE RIDDLE SOLVED
XV. ANOTHER MYSTERY UNRAVELED
XVI. AN UNEXPECTED MESSAGE
XVII. A CHANGE IN CIPHERS
XVIII. TOO LATE
XIX. THE ENEMY ESCAPES
XX. A CLUE FROM THE AIR
XXI. THE CAPTURE OF THE SPIES
XXII. A TASK ACCOMPLISHED

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece

Up came a sliding inner tube

The Secret Wireless

CHAPTER I

WHAT CAME OF HENRY'S IDEA

Henry Harper was sitting in