Walter and the Wireless

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entire train of events connected with Lola and his vanity was sadly hurt. If any good had come out of what he had done it was more by chance than as a result of wise calculatio

a glove. The fact that the great man had afterward sought to palliate the sting of the term did not actually help matters any. What he had thought

. In his depression he almost wished he had never seen Su

t might be now before the wire would be free for the master to reach and warn Bob to keep secret the tidings his brother had tattled to him. Wasn't it infernal luck to encounter th

on the steps to wait until the owner of

Why, their chattering seemed to be endless? Even through the door he could hear Mr. Crowninshield's curt tones and the eager rise and fall of hi

bbing his hands. "You did a mighty clever thing, young o

M

ore about this family paragon of yours?

ow," replied Wa

h a little dog had stopped at his station for water. The wood road skirting our shore goes right by Seaver Bay and probably the thief reasoned that no one would be on the lookout for him on such an out-of-the-way thoroughfare. At any rate he had to have water for his engine and he took a chance. He told your brother he was touring the Cape, and had you not called B

to Boston. He would not venture to try New York until later because he would be well aware that the authorities there would be waiting for him. He isn't going to be trapped. So he will try to do the thing he figures I will not calculate upon." Mr. Crowninshield rubbed his hands and laughed. "Little does he know we have him down cold already! And it has all been so quietly and promptly done. That is the beauty of it. You must hav

here will most likely expect to pass through there and pick him up?" he ventured, f

act

satisfaction. Some of his

o that the life of the dog might not be jeopardized. He seems to have thought of everything, this brother B

under the gre

," murmured he. "I th

color at having his own

still maintain that, generally speaking, a silent tongue is a great asset. In nine cases out of ten keeping still does far less harm than talking. Jerry is a shining example of my creed. In all the years he has been here he has never let his ton

y is never to make a m

who can boast such a record?" came

o,

or

ween them and Wa

hear anything more to-nig

t any moment; or again we may hear nothi

earnestness the lad had forgotten that they w

smiled in

s you are," said he, quite as if

l get any message b

hield regarded him wit

on what time

k. I've done it pretty much, too, sinc

ody to sit up, although I will admit," the man chuckled mischiev

r ignored

will hear by nin

e best thing for you to do, however, is to go to bed as you u

dicted the boy, his

go to bed and you go to bed; and if any message comes I'll tell them to waken me and then I'll wake

ouldn't hear it?"

as early as you do, I rather fancy. I will give or

t I just sit here on the piazza? It wouldn't

g, sonny. No, my plan is much the better one. You trot along to bed. I'll fulfill my part of

y the lad

telephone would ring and Mr. Crowninshield would announce to him the glad tidings that the thief had been caught. Then some one would motor to Barnstable, Brockton, or wherever it was, recapture Lola, and bring her back, and the events of the past

Bob! Perhaps he might give him a big sum of money; he could well afford to. Or maybe he would put him in the way of earning it. There was no telling what Aladdin-li

oy thrilled a

and soon dozed off into dreams wilder and even more extravagant. He sle

ver! The boss wants

stupor banished by the

n his pajamas took the stairs two at a t

lte

s,

unded dubious and discouraged. "They tracked the car we were after to

repeated the

of them is to be found. The abandoned automobile wit

iding somewhere in

follow, son;

se could

ton could meet him with an

r, and throw us

cise

ke. Walter was too nonplussed an

lad presently gathered ind

amateurs. This gang is being paid big money and does not intend either to fail in what it has undertak

you going

, and I should have had we not seemed on the high road to success without help. The plain-clothes men

s Highness, feeling it a little ungrateful of Mr. Crowni

rp answer. "I ought to have remembered it. Doubtless in our zeal we betrayed oursel

ined stoutly. "I'll bet this is jus

the other end of the wire. "The result, however, is the same. Instead

ge of exasperat

k," ventured the lad, not knowing what else

he master curtly. "After this we keep our hands off and the d

the receiver and stumbling through the darkness His

e would be now no wonderful career for Bob, no bag of gold, no fairy fortune! Instea

e coveted success Mr. Crowninshield w

as the favor and gr