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Updated: June 5, 2025
But the poor girl has a very slight handicap. She has to wear a hearing aid...." Scotty got it then. "Hey! Rick, that's great! The hearing aid would be a radio receiver!" Barby got it, too. She finished in a rush, "And the Megabuck Mob would be watching on TV, and digging out the answers, and the Memory Machine would be a radio transmitter ..."
We've been getting the Megabuck network completed in case we need to communicate." "Okay. Good luck, and keep me informed." "I will, Steve." Rick hung up and returned to the porch, deep in thought. To the waiting trio he said, "A blank. Nothing. Looks like the barber is still our best lead." "That houseboat is in it, too," Barby stated positively. "How do you know?" Scotty asked.
Scotty said, "I thought you were going to sleep all day." Barby came to Rick's defense. "He was tired. After all, it's hard work to get wonderful ideas like the one he had last night." Apparently Barby had told Jan all about it, because the girl asked, "Can I be a member of the Megabuck Mob?"
During the next half hour, while they waited for Duke to return, Rick told Jerry the story of the Megabuck Mob, omitting only what followed when Steve Ames arrived. Then Duke returned, freshly barbered, trying to scratch his back. "One thing about this new barber," he greeted them. "He's no better at keeping hair out of your shirt than Vince is.
He was reasonably sure the enemy wouldn't be listening in on the extremely short wave length on which the Megabuck network operated, but there was no use taking any chances. After each conversation he identified the sets with his own amateur call letters, even though it was unlikely anyone could hear the conversation.
"He'll never get a chance. The Megabuck Mob is pinched as of right now. The federal government is taking over this island!" Crouched in the doorway, submachine gun cradled in his arms, was an officer of the United States Coast Guard! The Invasion of Spindrift Hartson Brant reacted first. He said severely, "I've tried to teach Rick that one never points a firearm at people.
We'll send the speedboat back for you." The four young people stood at the rail and watched as the crowded pram with its outboard motor chugged off to the island. Barby pulled off her bathing cap, and Rick saw that she wore the Megabuck unit underneath. He pointed to it. "I tried to call you. Why didn't you answer?"
Scotty hurried out, while Rick settled down to wait. Scotty, using Jerry's car, would locate the houseboater at the pier. Rick would stand by, ready to take over as necessary. A short time later Scotty called on the Megabuck network. "I'm in the pier parking lot. He's tying the pram up." "Can he see you?" "Not unless he comes over and inspects the cars." "Okay."
There was nothing secret about the Megabuck network, except that he and Barby would use it for a mind-reading act. Jerry was trustworthy; he wouldn't give the act away. "Promise you'll keep it to yourself," Rick asked, and at ferry's excited nod he took the tiny receiver from his ear and handed it to Jerry.
Not finding what he wanted, he paused to look around in case he might have overlooked a possibility. He didn't know where girls kept things, and he suspected that sometimes the places weren't the same as boys might pick. But he could see no possible place that he hadn't searched. That meant Barby had her Megabuck unit with her, unless she had left it somewhere else in the house.
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