The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless; Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise

might. It's an outra

very act of cutting the aerial wires with a wire-nipper w

e deck. Jasper grinned covertly for he had t

soner. "He talks about ni

me by setting this man free until I've had an opportun

rejoined Halstead,

I command here?" r

board in the manner that seems best. I caught this man in a treacherous attempt to make our errand this afternoon quite useless. Jasper stays in irons until we reach port. I'm sorry to be so stu

had not seen the start of the trouble, m

led along the deck. Down into the cabin he was taken, there to be thrust into the starboard state

ur aerial," Halstead explained, after

him, then,"

he halted, well convinced that he could not, at pre

idge deck, Mr. Seaton, I want to explain matters to

d. Hepton, as though to show further g

uard for Lonely Island," began Tom, in a low voice, "that we found on

ed Powell Se

p with Dalton? Now, sir, putting two and two together, doesn't it seem mighty reasonable to suspect that Jasper overheard what we were saying the other night, and then watched his chance to steal the papers that you and I thought were so safely hidden

cruise, now pondered deeply, with knitted brows. At last, however,

122 too hasty and suspicious. I have hated my

s not as much reason for suspecting us as there is for believi

ur mates. But I hardly know what I am thinking

the other's hand. "I can, easily, and I hope you'll do your bes

ain Tom, a few moments later. "And I want to thank you f

didn't believe any too much in that man Jasper," mutte

sked Mr.

nted to do was to roam off about the island by himself. 123 Whenever he came back he wanted to sit in your sitting-room

asked Captain Halstead, looking

ng hard," replied tha

ther. Then, finding that he was not to be enlightened a

motor room. In one hand he held a slip of paper on which he had just taken down a message. "Twenty miles

studying the position and cour

to Rio Janeiro, don't

reless installation now, too," Joe continued.

r to the boy at the wheel, and rattled it off. The "

ore we sight the 'Fulton,'" judged Halstead. "Hank, you

in his hand Skipper Tom soo

ave known, for sure, that there was a Rio boat in these waters this afternoon. And, but for getting the 'Fult

his glasses, got a glimpse of a steamship's masts. A few

uild," Halstead explained, eagerly. "We'll soon be close eno

flourish, pointing, then hand

, sir, and you'll make out that drab-hulled

," nodded

g both the seventy-footer and the freighter inte

estless," "Dalton's craft is in fine position to stop the freighter. But we'll reach the 'Fulton' first, and by

n we overhaul both craft?" w

make the 'Fulton's' captain refuse

manded Mr

, the freighter's captain isn't going to take any chances on getting into subsequent trouble wit

rful for a moment. Then a look

recognize Dalton as a man of consequence-one to be served at all hazards. For, if a steamship captain of the Langley line must be careful to stand well with the United States authorities, he must a

ace showed his i

chance to stop Anson Dalton. He goes to Brazil with all the papers for locatin