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Slowly the Catwhisker crept around the island-surrounded island until they discovered a passage somewhat wider and apparently deeper than others they had seen thus far in the outer rim. "It looks as if we might get through there," suggested Hal. He and Bud had followed into the pilot house soon after Cub and his father repaired to that place. "It does look a little that way," replied Mr. Perry.
"You act as chairman, Mr. Perry." "I am elected by Bud, there being no opposition," announced the owner of the Catwhisker. "Now, what is the question, Hal?" "I'll put it this way," the latter replied: "Resolved, that mathematics is more useful to a detective than a flashlight or a skeleton key." "That isn't half-bad at all," declared Cub in the midst of general laughter and applause.
You know we're supposed to try to get in touch with somebody by radio at Rockport and we haven't much time to spare before the Catwhisker arrives there. You get busy on the job and I'll take care of the dishes." "Not on your lightning switch," returned Bud emphatically. "I volunteered to be Friday, and I'm not going to slip out of my promise through your generosity.
"All right, I will run down to the dock and tell them." Max literally kept his promise relative to his manner of travel. He ran all the way to the dock, half a mile. The Catwhisker was there, tied fast with cables, but nobody was on board. "They've gone to the depot," he concluded; then he turned his steps toward the railroad station.
Although the principle of the affair was very simple, Hal must be given credit for having done his work well. So satisfactory did the device prove from the moment when it began to take messages from the "island prisoner", that all on board the Catwhisker became hopeful of success before sun-down.
"Guess I'll go and see what his idea is on that subject." By this time the Catwhisker was several miles beyond Grindstone Island and was winding its way through a labyrinthine group to the north of Grandview.
Although he succeeded in communicating with half a dozen "hams", only one of them had listened-in to any of the messages that passed between the Catwhisker boys and the two Canadian radio contestants, and he was able to throw no light on the "mystery". At last he gave it up for the time being, and joined the other Catwhiskerites on deck for a period of sightseeing enjoyment.
Tuesday's entry closed with a notation of the announcement from Cub that the Catwhisker was about to start on a rescue trip from Oswego to the Lake of the Thousand Islands and would endeavor to find him by radio compass. "The situation is cleared up very much," Mr. Perry remarked after Hal had finished reading the diary.
He was a little older than the Catwhisker boys, but he had no "college airs" and was soon telling his story as one boy to a group of chums, while the men stood around and drank it all in as eagerly as if they themselves were boys again. "Bill Howard made the biggest mistake of his life when he confederated with three other sophomores to haze me," Alvin began.
Presently they found themselves in front of a hardware store, and the owner of the Catwhisker stopped and said: "I'm going in here a minute." He entered, and Mr. Baker and Cub followed, wondering a little as to the motive of the boy's father. But they were not long left in doubt. "Have you any fire-arms on sale here?" Mr. Perry asked, addressing the proprietor.
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