Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-29
CHAPTER XII Continued

| Chapter Xl Continued
| They were in time to see that the
boathouse was unharmed. A little speed
boat which they had not noticed now
circled about. 1t picked up the girl and
started furiously toward the mouth OF
the harbor. A black object, Glenn, strug-
glcd fecbly in the water. BY this time
| Dick had his coat off. He ripped his
shirt as he ran down the dock and
plunged off, almost unencumbered by
| that time.
! When Garrick pulled them both out
and had Glenn sufficiently revived to
! find that there were no broken bones,
he had begun to get the story.
Glenn, it seemed, had been on the
| road-sid of the boathouse from which
he had expected attack, if at all, when
he had heard Il noise under the work
shop. The workshop was on the second
floor Under it had been boat-shed
1t had been converted into hangar by
Dick, with skid-way down into the
water. In it he had hydroareOplane
| on which he was working installing one
of his new radio ideas.
81 saw Rae" he painted for breath.
"She had come up to the boathouse,
alone, in a rowboat with a little engine
over the stern. She was sticking The
nose of the boat under the boathouse IN
the channel between the skidway. l
saw something smoking in the bow. The
engine was going slowly, keeping the
nose of the boat up under the boat
house. I ran down and jumped into the
boat "My God, Rae l shouted.
81 Going fo kill ia both ~
"With a boat hook i'll both hands
she lunged at me but it hit my shoulder
instead of my head. Damn you'll she
cried, have had to say so many nice
things to you when ] didn t feel like it
here s another wallop!
"I swung the boat free, gave the
pier kick and it turned. The engine
was turning over slowly and carrying
us away. / got the boathook away;
then she grabbed me. You fool! Take
your hands off-bcfore l bite them
off Look! 1t g going to explode!
It's going to exploded Then I've
Jumped. There was that gcyscr OF
| water and stuff Someone picked
| up Rae in z speed boat L felt
as if that darn engine had hit me
| &. till Dick got me! But the
| boathouse is safe, fellows! y
| Garrick smiled. 81 could decorate
| YOU on the field of action, Glenn
| lie looked over at Dick. The blow had
| been intended for them; it had miscar-
ricd and Glenn had risked his life.
l"Wcll leave Mckay here for few
minutes. II drive your car, Nita. J
must get Glenn home. He's mustered
out with all the honors!'
"Wait Il minute 1t was Dick
"Wc left that other set in your room
at the Club We got new one. I'm
Il bug on this MT be out of touch
with the air minute and be happy
AS Garrick drove them, Dick told
what had happened at the club. "But,
asked Glenn, rcviying, "why the at
tempt to wreck the boathouse.lab?"
"Becausc," quickened Garrick, "i'
is the one place, they know, contains
the apparatus to ferret them out ant
catch them!"
At Glenn s they waited for DIR
Darling to run over from Stony Brook
to dress his wounds again. You must
fellows; 1 need your moral support
begged Glenn. III give me the
devil. "
| "Now, Dick, hook up that business
you brought along. I've got the fever
too, passion for pulling information
down out of the air, like the prcstidi
gitators do with gold pieces. -
Dick busted himself about the tcle
phone for some time, then set up th'
receiving set.
"It's a sort of wired wireless" h
explained, CHASED on discovery, in
vented and perfected by a rcgula
shark at this thing, Major Genera
Sguier."
While they waited for the doctor
raft of inconscquential stuff filtere,
through. The doctor came, was paci