Radio Boys Loyalty
OR
BILL BROWN LISTENS IN
BY
WAYNE WHIPPLE
Author of “Radio Boys Cronies”
AND
S. F. AARON
Co-author of “Radio Boys Cronies”
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Copyright, 1922,
by
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BILL BROWN LISTENS IN
“They’ve got a splendid broadcasting stationat the Tech, Bill.”
“I know it; hence my general exuberance. Andif we don’t get at it once in a while, it’ll be becausewe can’t break in.”
“What do you want to shout into it first off?”
“Why, I thought you knew, Gus. I’ve got it allfixed, date and time, for Professor Gray and Mr.Hooper to listen in. They’re the chaps that areresponsible for our getting into the Tech and theydeserve our first message. I’ll explain to PresidentField and I know he won’t object.”
“What’s this you were telling me about8hazing?” asked Gus, but as though really littleinterested.
“Terry Watkins was telling me; his cousin wentthere. Lost a new hat the third day, a pair ofglasses the fourth and most of his clothes thefifth. His dad has a lot of dough, so he needn’thave minded, but that won’t be the case with us.I guess it’s me for carrying a gun.”
“If they’re mean enough to pick on you, oldscout, I’ll carry one, too, but I think you’ll beexempt. If I’m to be a victim, I reckon I’ll haveto grin and take——”
“No; you won’t, either. We’ve come here tostudy—not to fool—and we haven’t got money tospend on ruined duds just to gratify a lot ofchumps. There are better things, too, than a gun;not so crude and not illegal.”
“I can imagine,” laughed Gus, and turned againto watch the fleeting landscape.
The chums journeyed in silence then, theirminds busy conjecturing what their experiences9and adventures were to be, after they becamestudents of the Marshallton Technical School,which they were rapidly approaching and fromwhich they held high hopes of gaining much knowledge.The institution, despite its modest name,was nothing less than a university of broad constructiveteaching, with departments of engineering,electricity, chemistry, manual training andbiology.
It was within the first two of these departmentsthat William Brown and Augustus Grier were toconcentrate their mental efforts. They had, asal