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that morning, for heavy clouds were gathering in the sky. The short Arctic night came to an end at last, however, and in the murky distance the boys saw the long coast line. Shortly after three o'clock they passed the wireless station and landed, not without some difficulty at Cordova. They found the town asleep, of course, but after a time an early riser directed them to the residence of a surgeon. They arranged with him to meet them later in the day and at once set out for the wireless station. It was two hours before they saw the operator coming to his post of duty. He remembered Frank, and willingly promised to at once open communication with Seattle and take up the work of securing a duplicate of the code message. He explained that a copy had been kept, but that it had been destroyed by a careless janitor, who had said that he could make nothing at all of the jumble of words and letters! As soon as Seattle answered the Cordova call, a duplicate of the code telegram was asked for, and Seattle undertook to place the request on the wire and cause it to be rushed through to Chicago. "We ought to receive the answer some time this afternoon," the operator said as the boys started away. CHAPTER XI MAKING NEW PLANS When the boys returned to the floating dock at which the motor boat had been tied during their absence at the station they found Boswell sitting in the cabin in a crouching attitude. "Did you get what you wanted?" he asked. Tommy shook his head. "Then," continued the sailor, "you'd better give over trying to get it for the present and duck away from here! You'll have trouble if you don't!" "What do you mean by that?" asked Frank. "Do you see the tug coming up the bay?" asked Boswell. "Certainly!" was the reply. "Well, she's been signalling to have this boat held until she arrives! And the chances are that she picked up Jamison and his pirates somewhere near the island where you left them." "Then, of course, Jamison will want us arrested for piracy?" asked Tommy tentatively. "I presume that's what it means." "Well," Boswell replied, "when you take another man's boat and leave him afloat in a dinghy, you must expect something to come of it besides kisses. Of course you'll be arrested!" Frank gave a long, low whistle of dismay. "Then," he said, "we'll have to go and notify the surgeon of what's coming off and get him to go on to the cabin alone." "Yes," Tommy add
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