Arthur B. Reeve

“ I commented, falling in with Craig.
“Whatever she knows or doesn’t know,” he answered, “there is one thing I am sure of. That woman may be depended on to do nothing that would hurt Sinclair. Did you notice? She scarcely took her eyes off him.”
“And Sinclair?” I whispered.
“I’m not so sure how much he cares for her,” returned Craig.
⁠WE HAD reached the end of the dock, and Sinclair’s presence forbade pursuing the subject further. It was only a matter of a few seconds and the engine was started. Kennedy had been talking earnestly with Burke and was the last to jump into the boat. ”

“ Sinclair had taken the two messages and was reading them over again.
“You are right,” he exclaimed, as he laid them down again. “Those people over at Seaville evidently fear us. The last train up to the city had gone when that message was sent, for there isn’t very good service in that direction at night. They have called for help by wireless and Alvarez is coming to get them away in the best manner possible. That is the way I figure it out, at least.”
“And that is right,” agreed Kennedy. “Our problem is to intercept them.” ”

“ CHAPTER XI THE RADIO-DETECTIVE KENNEDY, Burke and myself hustled over to the railroad-station and there were met by Kennedy’s messenger, carrying the packages he had ordered from his laboratory by the wireless courier of the air. We piled them into the rear of the car and a few moments later were speeding to rejoin Sinclair at the Yacht Club.
The club was a large square building, extending out into the water on made land, from which ran a long, substantial dock at the end of which was a platform with a flag and alongside it a searchlight. ”

“ Yet it is possible that many things may be going on, almost under his eyes, and he might not realize their importance. What puzzles me is that, although he did not know the cause of the disaster, he seems to know about that message I sent to New York for my apparatus and to have found out who we are and something of why we are here.”
⁠KENNEDY had returned to his radio-detective and was hastily running it along again. He had passed several perfectly intelligible messages that had been caught and recorded, but were of no value to us, when he paused again. ”

“ But, as a matter of fact, nearly everything that is transmitted by the Hertzian waves can be snatched down from the very sky by other wireless-apparatus.
“An operator, his ear-phone clamped to his head, may drink in news conveyed surely and swiftly to him through wireless-signals, plucking from the air secrets of war and,” he added significantly—“love.”
Kennedy paused a moment over the word, whether to catch some reaction from Sinclair or not I could not make out. ”

“ Sinclair, but he didn’t seem to know what caused the accident himself.”
“No,” replied Kennedy. “It was most unfortunate, whatever it was. By the way, I wonder whether any of your friends intend to be here tonight?”
“I think not,” she answered frankly. “You know they are very clannish. They live much to themselves. You can’t blame them. They’re a good deal like we are down in Mexico, you know, with our own American clubs.”
Kennedy had arisen and was looking over the gay crowd, but apparently did not find any faces there that he recognized. ”