The Radio Boys Under the Sea

, as in everything else, we need the 'sinews of war.' We've got to lay in supplies, purchase a diving suit, charter a sailing vessel after

those two amounts. A year ago it might have stumped us a bit, but the reward we got from the bank for the capture of Muggs Murray

ve of us-that is, if your friend Elwood comes in with us-and that will make from one to two thousand each that

e rest of us," objected Phil. "You're the one that got the

lp me realize on them. No, it's got to be 'hoss and hoss,' share and share alike. That is," he added, with h

urney will be from here to some of

here, it will be up to us to charter a small fast sailing vessel in which we can cruise around in the Caribbean while we're trying to locate the old pirate'

gating the sloo

can handle a ship with the best of them. But the marine service appealed to me more strongly because of the greater chances of adventure, and so I passed the other up. But I haven't

thing to the sea itself. We know enough about ropes and sails to understand orders and to obey them promptly. I

ork before cutting loose for the big adventure. That removes a lot of worry from my mind, for I'd hate like thunder to have to ship a crew from the kind of materi

guns, revolvers and plenty of ammunition. T

ly where that come

crusted with barnacles or covered with silt and sea growths that would make it impossible for the diver to get into the hold unaided. But he could plant a charge of dynamite, and then aft

iving suit. We can't afford to get any but the best, for the man that goes down in it literally takes his life in

more modern suit that I have in mind eliminates the necessity of the air tube. The diver carries his own oxygen with him in a tank that is fitted into a steel shell that is a part of the suit. Beside the oxygen tank

ts to the air tube. It might get entangled, or cut or bitten by a shark and then it was all up with th

ok out in front or on either side without shifting his position. And as the diver goes down, three blazing lights of many hundred candle power each, in glass especially made to resist pre

the diving suit and that is a good many times stronger than steel. Take it alto

e best of conditions, I s

n the business as it used to. Another thing that adds to his safety and facilitates his work is a telephone wire that is attached

n effectively. If we had to work at great depths, there'd be nothing left for us but to take a diver along. But from what the old pirate said about the soundings and the fact that the

ite chummy with one of the divers. He's a regular fellow, and I'm sure he'd be glad to do me a favor. When we get down to San Domingo, I'll hunt him up and ask him to take one of us and give him some practical lessons in the diver's business. We'll have to be there several weeks perhaps, while we'

ays had a wonderful fascination for me, and it would be a great

ut me?"

on't forget your uncle Dick." Be

taste of it, but in the limited time we'll have it would be better to single out one and let him have the ma

ake a radio set alo

hing that'll stand between us and death. It'll keep us in constant touch with civilization. If Robinson Crusoe had had a radio set, he wouldn't have had to sta

t last Benton arose to go they felt that they had overlo

n part of the work, and they kept the radio busy ordering from different cities the objects ne

e of his invitation came by telegraph, to be followed by a letter in which he expressed his deli

feet," grinned Phil as the Radi

speak to him of adventure and it's like sho

laughed Tom. "Gee, but it seems a long time to wait before w

aits," and finally the day came when all their preparations were complete, when the farewe