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Title: The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless
The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise

Author: H. Irving Hancock

Release Date: March 30, 2009 [EBook #28449]

Language: English

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THE MOTOR BOAT CLUB

AND THE WIRELESS

OR

The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise

By

H. IRVING HANCOCK

Author of The Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec

The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket

The Motor Boat Club off Long Island, Etc.

Illustrated

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Copyright 1909, by Howard E. Altemus

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Spark Puts Three Boys and a Boat on the Jump 7
II. Some of the Mystery Unraveled 26
III. Invisible Hands at the Wireless 39
IV. Taking a Great Chance 50
V. Tom Matches One Trick With Another 61
VI. Carrying Dangerous Live "Freight" 70
VII. Powell Seaton's Bad Case of "Forget" 78
VIII. The Red Message 85
IX. Mr. Seaton Unburdens Himself 92
X. The Traitor at the Aerials 105
XI. The Drab Boat Shows Her Nose 114
XII. The Searchlight Finds a "Double" 127
XIII. Tom Halstead--Ready! 139
XIV. Grit Goes up the Signal Mast 151
XV. Playing Salt Water Blind Man's Buff 160
XVI. A Gleam of Hope Through the Shroud of Fog 171
XVII. When the Motor Boat Club Boys "Went Daffy" 179
XVI