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ndrums, the answers to come later." So spoke the announcer. Herb and Jimmy gazed at each other open-mouthed. "Wh-what did he say?" gasped Jimmy, at length. "Did you hear it the same as I did, Herb?" "He said Robert Layton, all right!" exclaimed Herb. "What do you suppose----" But here he was interrupted by the well known voice of their friend. "Give me a pencil!" exclaimed Herb. "I'll guess those before the answers come, or die trying. We can't let Bob get away with this altogether." "I should say not!" agreed Jimmy, as Herb started scribbling furiously. "I can't believe yet that it's really Bob talking. How do you suppose he ever got on the programme?" Herb shook his head without stopping his writing, and at last had all the riddles written down. "Never mind the rest of the programme," he said. "We'll try to solve these things first." But while they were still struggling to find answers to the knotty riddles, they nearly went over backward in their chairs as another familiar name sounded in their ears. The announcer was giving Joe's name this time, and all Herb and Jimmy could do was to sit and look at each other and mutter inarticulately as Joe recited his selections. When they were over, both boys took off their head phones and gazed solemnly at each other. "Can you beat it?" asked Herb at length, in a bewildered way. "Nope," responded Jimmy. "I'm not even going to try. Just think of those two Indians actually getting on a broadcasting programme! I'm knocked so hard that I'll have to eat another doughnut to set me straight again. Finish 'em up, Herb." And Herb "finished 'em up" while they both ruminated on the incomprehensible vagaries of fate. "We've got to go over and see 'em do it," declared Jimmy. "Right you are," returned his chum. "I won't believe it till I see it with my own eyes." They saw it with their own eyes a week later when the radio boys gave a second performance which was even more successful than the first, since they had got over the nervousness that affected them at the start. The manager renewed his importunities for them to take a regular engagement, assuring them that they had made a decided hit. The best the boys could see their way clear to agree to, however, was to appear one night in each week, and this programme was carried out for the several weeks ensuing, with ever-increasing ability on the part of Bob and Joe and marked satisfaction to the manager of the
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