Whispers at Dawn; Or, The Eye
her message from the mysterious whisperer. No further message came. Had
w, she found her strange uncle
is nothing to unpack. Not many people will come. They come only when
hought with an in
oward an aged woman bending over a pile of soiled garments. "Toda
for the Whisperer. She heard nothing. He spoke, apparent
th a narrow bandage still about his head, he returned to the "House of Ma
eted him. "I have not tried that new thing. We will be
Johnny felt a thril
e. The grounds are deserted. I have permission to use the b
here there are crowds. Felix was to l
Fair grounds Felix presented
a small truck," he explain
he was to look, listen, help all he could and not ask questions. "I'll be told all I need to know in good
some great man-made dragon opened its mouth as if to swallow them, there a tattered sign fluttered and cracked in the
Yes, he was sure of it. And there, well defined against a wall, were the shadows of two h
e had gone plodding stolidly on into the gathering
consternation, John
him they were at the spot
time arrangement that will set the electrically operated drum, winding us back down again in two hou
her strange arrangement.
n the grounds unless they ha
limb in, and
ense of insecurity as they rose a hundred, two hundred, three hundred feet into
ming. "Where," he thought, "are Drew and Tom? Hunting pickpockets perhaps. And where is Captain Burns? I'm going to like him, I'm su
e broken in upon
t the top. Now
ect this through a switch, aim my light at a window in our house, take up this mic
ernation. "The current is off
g over the side of the balloon basket in which they rode
der boy's voice. "We're going out into the nigh
those two!" Jo
?" Felix
one and a short one-anyway I saw th
y haven't got us-not yet!" There was courage and high resolve
Johnny silen
d. He was once more in that place of mystery, the professor's house, in the hallway seeing eyes in th