Mystery Wings

ery beginning, in his enthusiasm for a new and quite wonderfu

said as he met Meggy Strawn on

dollar!" Me

shall have them!"

ll!" Meg laugh

ny said in a mysterious tone.

taken, she gave him a startled look. "Why you-" she broke off to stare at him for all the world as if she had never seen him

t know how you did it-you don't need to t

Their hands clasped for a space of seconds. Then, w

s mental comment. "Swell w

ew pitcher and, having visited the electric shop and watched Goggles' mechanical umpire with forty eyes perform, he hurried home, set up the camera,

thed at last. "T

sm he developed and copied hi

arly finished product. "Am I the thinker! If only I could wr

proaching ball games to the slow-goi

glasses. "Same old stuff I suppose. Ha

ohnny gave himse

ed under his breath. Then, "Great Jehosophat, Johnny! Didn't know you had it in you! Been

Johnny gri

fine copy. Run it just as it is. Get y

ll the boys to know this paper's for 'em. We wa

Johnny stammered. "Th

is shoulder. "This stuff shows real talent. Keep

hnny had never craved. But then, if he did not write it, who did? That would require much explaining

e than two thousand years old. He wondered what those green eyes could have seen when the world was very young. He wondered many things. But he did not forget to point his thought-camera at the silent, wise Wung Lu and to record his thoughts

uld point it at that strange pitcher over at the laboratories. He wanted terribly to know his secret. And yet-one does not sp

self, "I'll keep it f

room at the back of the Chinese spice store. There, in the semi-darkness, Tao Sing's cl

and again. Wung Lu is very wise. Soon we shall all be wise. Here are m

owered by a strange sense of Oriental intrigue and mystery. "Perhaps I shouldn't be doing a

battle with the Centralia

Johnny said t

to," was Me

any. "Not a chance," was his final decision. "B

ach time his uneasiness grew. Each time that he delivered the think-o-graphs, as he h

r. "Could it be that Tao Sing was learning things he had no right to know? And was he, Johnny, assist