Roy Blakeley

t, Roy; don't worry. And they'll get it too, because everybody in to

do boats were down in the harbor and up the Hudson, a

and then he said, "No searchlight, I suppose." If we had only had a

, but he was proud of Wig. I could see that Wig was thinking and for jus

e it?" Connie

ny, and somebody get the stove cleared out; see if there's a damper in the pipe, and see if there's

oxes and all. We didn't have to open more than one of the seat cushions

got to treat

ice cream it can eat, if it'll only help you

d treat it," he said, very so

end a cent," I c

all damp, but not exactly wet, and I don't know how they got it that way, except I know there was bilge water down under the flooring. They're a lot of crackerjacks on signalling, I'

de," somebody said, "so he'll

signs," Pee-wee sho

most of us went up on the roof to see if we could read it. B

damp excelsior (that's what they call the smu

he said; then he said to m

him. "Say for them not to pay a

w he did it, then I went up on the roof and watched the long black smo

and told Artie Van Arlen (he's their patrol leader) to hold a rag over the crack in the door, be

e and when I saw Artie bind a wet rag over Wig's eyes and mouth

eard him say; "better hav

d kept turning it around and that let little puffs of smoke through, and I heard the fellows up on the roof shouting, "Hurrah!" so I knew it

ry much, because I didn't want that badge to get into their patrol and anyway he's kind of sober, sort of, and maybe he thoug

oke in there was getting thicker and thicker. Then he gave it a quick turn, then w

said to

each about twenty seconds, and I could

d O! Bully for

he said to Artie. "Is the wind

said it. But I just couldn't move. There was something in my throat an

e've-got-got-her-talking-now

oy," Artie V

black column in the sky, and shouting when they read the letters. But I was thinking about thos

there," one of th

omething,"

he can only stick it out," another fe

e," I

esty Martin said; "it's easier for A

SAFE shot up. And I knew what it meant-it meant that the words Roy

ke a telegraph operator moves his key. "Don't worry!" it said, "reports false," "Roy

seconds to see if the wind was blowing the smoke away as

wind," he said, and then

d it and that's what made me worry. I'm good on reading smudge signals, even though I never sent many and I never have to have the handbook when I read the code, that's one thing. And I didn't pay much atten

opped was SAFE, or that's what it was meant to be, only the short flash for E didn't come. The fellows all began shou

e sky open?" I heard a fello

r for all I was worth. I scrambled around the narrow part of the deck to

there? Are you all right

d in and down low, because I knew that the smoke wouldn't be so thick near the floor. And I saw Wig Weigand lying there right under the stove pipe and

Doc Carson down, Wig Weiga