THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS AND THE NAVAL CODE
BY CAPTAIN WILBUR LAWTON
AUTHOR OF "THE BOY AVIATORS' SERIES," "THE DREADNOUGHT BOYS' SERIES," "THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS ON THE ATLANTIC," "THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS AND THE LOST LINER," "THE OCEAN WIRELESS BOYS OF THE ICE-BERG PATROL," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES L. WRENN
NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1915, BY HURST & COMPANY
"Huh, I don't think the idea's worth a cent," sniffed Thurman.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Vacation Days CHAPTER II. "Speedway" vs. "Curlew" CHAPTER III. Captain Simms, of the "Thespis" CHAPTER IV. On Secret Service CHAPTER V. Night Signals CHAPTER VI. In the Dark CHAPTER VII. The Naval Code CHAPTER VIII. A Monkey Interlude CHAPTER IX. Noddy and the Bear CHAPTER X. "What Do You Make of It?" CHAPTER XI. A Swim with a Memory CHAPTER XII. A Tale from the Frozen Lands CHAPTER XIII. A Night Alarm CHAPTER XIV. Jack's Curiosity and Its Results CHAPTER XV. Billy Takes the Trail CHAPTER XVI. A "Ghostess" Abroad CHAPTER XVII. One Mystery Solved CHAPTER XVIII. Bill Sniggers Decides CHAPTER XIX. What a "Hayseed" Did CHAPTER XX. The "Curlew" in Trouble CHAPTER XXI. The End of Jack's Holiday CHAPTER XXII. "The Gem of the Ocean" CHAPTER XXIII. Jack's Big Secret CHAPTER XXIV. The Navy Department "Sits Up" CHAPTER XXV. A Mystery on Board CHAPTER XXVI. A "Flash" of Distress CHAPTER XXVII. A Strange Wreck CHAPTER XXVIII. Cast Away with a Python CHAPTER XXIX. Captured by Radio CHAPTER XXX. Thurman Plots CHAPTER XXXI. The "Suitable Reward" CHAPTER XXXII. The Plotter's Triumph CHAPTER XXXIII. In the Power of the Enemy CHAPTER XXXIV. The Search for Jack CHAPTER XXXV. The Wireless Makes Good
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"Huh, I don't think the idea's worth a cent," sniffed Thurman.
While Billy stood there hesitating, the creature gave another of its alarming growls.
The next instant a great lithe, striped body streaked through the air.—
What he saw made him almost lose his grip on the hatchway.
The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code.
CHAPTER I.
VACATION DAYS.
"Up with your helm there, Noddy! Luff her up or you'll have the Curlew on the rocks!"
"That's right, luff!" cried Billy Raynor, adding his voice to Jack Ready's command.
"That's what I luff to do," grinned the red-headed, former Bowery waif, Noddy Nipper, as, with a dexterous motion, he jerked over the tiller of the fine, speedy sloop in which the boys were enjoying a sail on Alexandria Bay, above the Thousand Islands.
The mainsail and jib shivered, and the Curlew spun round like a top just as it seemed inevitable that she must end her career on some jagged rocks that had suddenly loomed up ahead.
"Neatly done, Noddy," applauded Jack. "We'll forgive you even that awful pun for that skillful bit of boat-handling."
The freckled lad grinned in appreciation of the compliment paid him by the Wireless Boy.
"Much obliged," he said. "Of course I haven't got sailing down as fine as you yet. How far do you reckon we are from home?"
"From the Pine Island hotel, you mean?" rejoined Billy Raynor. "Oh, not more than ten miles."
"Just about that," chimed in Jack. "If this wind holds we'll be home in time for supper."
"Supper!" exclaimed Bill; "I could eat an octogenarian doughnut, I'm so hungry."
A groan came from Noddy. Although the Bowery lad had polished up on his grammar and vocabulary considerably since Jack Ready first encountered him as second cook on the seal-poaching schooner Polly Ann, Captain "Terror" Carson commanding, still, a word like "Octogenarian" stumped him, as the saying is.
"What's an octo-octo—what-you-may-call-'um doughnut, anyhow?" he demanded, for Noddy always liked to acquire a new word, and not infrequently astonished his friends by coming out with a "whopper" culled out of the dictionary. "Is it a doughnut with legs on it?"
