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They had very little chance of getting accurate information. The ark had only one window, and, if we can trust the artists who illustrate our Bibles, it was a kind of skylight. The refugees on Salissa if refugees is the proper word were in one respect worse off than Noah's family. They had no skylight. The wireless message sent to the Megalian admiral told them that the Great Powers were at war.
The telephone bell rang directly afterwards and from the bridge came the order: "Magdalen Bay to establish immediate connection by wireless with cruiser and torpedoes; ascertain whether they belong to blue or yellow party." The officer ticked off the message at great speed. "This looks like bad weather," he said to himself, while waiting for the answer.
His anger was increased when the intercepted wireless came to hand in the evening: "Captain Müller shot down his twenty-seventh aeroplane." That night, when the mess was sitting around after dinner, Tam appeared with a big armful of cigars. "What's the matter with 'em?" asked Blackie in mock alarm.
"As I was saying, the waves sent out by your 'con-centrating' may have, like the wireless waves, been picked up by my own delicate mental mechanism and " "In other words, Miss Dean overshot the mark she aimed at," interjected Hippy. "Well, something like that, I should say," chuckled the Mystery Man. "Is there anything you do not know?" wondered Anne Nesbit.
Let a man in this day in the presence of men like these sing. If a man cannot sing, let him be silent. Only men who are singing things shall do them. I go out into the street, I go out and look almost anywhere, listen anywhere, and the singing rises round me! It was singing that spread the wireless telegraph like a great web across the sky.
I at once reported my action to your Excellency in my wireless message, No. 179, and in a previous telegram, No. 165, and requested approval of my action; probably these messages have been delayed in transit, or have not reached Berlin.
Those from the art-gallery terminated in something very much like the apparatus which a wireless operator wears over his head. Among other things which Craig had brought down from the laboratory was a package which he had not yet unwrapped. He placed it near the window, still wrapped. It was quite large, and must have weighed fifteen or twenty pounds.
I wish I knew what I am going to do after I graduate from high school." Roy Mercer, like Charley and Lew, was a member of the Camp Brady Wireless Patrol.
"Oh, so that's it! And what are you working at in school that is so alluring?" demanded the man with a quizzical glance. "Electricity." "Electricity!" "Wireless, telegraphs, telephones, and things like that," put in Ted. For comment Mr.
Del Mar had evidently, by this time, come to the conclusion that Elaine was the storm centre of the peculiar train of events that followed the disappearance of Kennedy and his wireless torpedo. At any rate, as soon as he learned that Elaine was going to her country home for the summer, he took a bungalow some distance from Dodge Hall.
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