Will you
come along?"
"Will I!" said Dick. "What do you think you'll do, Harry?"
"We may get special orders, of course," said Harry. "But I think the first
thing will be to find out just where the signals from that house are being
received. They must be answered, you know, so we ought to find the next
station. Then, from that, we can work on to the next."
"Where do you suppose those signals go to?"
"That's what we've got to find out, Dick! But I should think, in the long
run, to some place on the East coast. Perhaps they've got some way there of
signalling to ships at sea. Anyhow, that's what's got to be discovered. Did
you see Graves to-night?"
"No," said Dick, his lips tightening, "I didn't! But I heard about him, all
right."
"How? What do you mean?"
"I heard that he'd been doing a lot of talking about you. He said it wasn't
fair to have taken you and given you the honor of doing something when
there were English boys who were just as capable of doing it as you."
"Oh!" said Harry, with a laugh. "Much I care what he says!"
"Much I care, either!" echoed Dick. "But, Harry, he has made some of the
other chaps feel that way, too. They all like you, and they don't like
him. But they do seem to think some of them should have been chosen."
"Well, it's not my fault," said Harry, cheerfully.
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