Excerpt from The Motor Rangers’ Wireless Station
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 con veniently 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.
This is Goat Island He banged-out on the key, while the spark leaped and writhed in a serpent of steel-blue flame between the spark ing points. It whined and squealed like an anifl mal in pain as Ding-dong’s trembling fingers al ternately depressed and released the brass.
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