Lewis E Theiss

The Secret Wireless Lewis E Theiss

Book Excerpt: ..."Well of all things!" ejaculated Mrs. Harper. "What will you infants do next? Offer to relieve the President of his job?""Well, we did catch the dynamiters at the Elk City reservoir," protested Henry defensively. "And we did it after the state police and the national guards had failed. I don't see why we can't help catch German spies in New York just as well as in Pennsylvania.""Humph!" said Mrs. Harper. "It's a lot of help you youngsters would be in catching real spies. You just happened to stumble on these dynamiters and now you think you can do thing. But that's the way with boys. They're all alike.""But, mother," protested Henry, "boys can be useful in lots of ways. And just because they are boys nobody thinks of suspecting them.""There's one place where a certain boy I know could be of a lot of use and never be suspected," agreed Mrs. Harper. "And that's at that woodpile back of the shed.""Please don't interrupt me, mother," said Henry. "You asked me to tell yo...