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THE MOTOR RANGERS' WIRELESS STATION

THE WIRELESS ISLAND.

The drowsy calm of a balmy afternoon at the Motor Rangers' wireless camp on Goat Island was abruptly shattered by a raucous, insistent clangor from the alarm-bell of the wireless outfit. Nat Trevor, Joe Hartley and Ding-dong Bell, who had been pretending to read but were in reality dozing on the porch of a small portable wood and canvas house, galvanized into the full tide of life and activity usually theirs.

"Something doing at last!" cried Nat. "It began to look as if there wouldn't be much for us on the island but a fine vacation, lots of sea-breeze and coats of tan like old russet shoes."

"I ter-told you there'd be ser-ser-something coming over the a-a-a-a-aerials before long," sputtered Ding-dong Bell triumphantly, athrill with excitement.

"What do you suppose it is?" queried Joe Hartley, his red, good-natured face aglow.

"Don't go up in the air, Joe," cautioned Nat, "it's probably nothing more thrilling than a weather report from one of the chain of coast stations to another."

"Get busy, Ding-dong, and find out," urged Joe Hartley; "let's see what sort of a message you can corral out of the air."

But young Bell was already plodding across the sand toward a small timber structure about fifty yards distant from the Motor Rangers' camp. Above the shack stretched, between two lofty poles, the antennae of the wireless station. Against these the electric waves from out of space were beating and sounding the wireless "alarm-clock," an invention of Ding-dong's of which he was not a little proud.

Ding-dong had become inoculated with the wireless fever as a result of the trip east which the Motor Rangers had taken following their stirring adventures in the Bolivian Andes in Professor Grigg's air-ship--which experiences were related in the fourth volume of this series, The Motor Rangers' Cloud Cruiser. On their return to California--where all three boys lived, in the coast resort of Santa Barbara--nothing would suit Ding-dong but that they take a vacation on Goat Island and set up a wireless plant for experimental purposes.

"I want to try it and away from home where a bunch of fellows won't be hanging about and joking me if I make a fizzle," he explained.

Directly Ding-dong reached the hut housing the apparatus, he flung himself down before the instruments and hastily jammed the head-piece, with its double "watch-case" receivers, over his ears. He picked up a pencil and placing it conveniently above a pad of paper that was always kept affixed to the table holding the sending and receiving appliances, he began to send a storm of dots and dashes winging out in reply to the wireless impulse that had set the gong sounding.

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