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A Really Great Story of Radio,
Mary Walsworth was never
quite certain as to just how
the struggle started
The
A
Chapter I
HEX-HAWK, floating high in the summer air, tilted and veered as it passed over Power House Hill. It circled slowlv
Story Without a Name
downward as it planed over the misty emerald slopes of the Golf Course and out over the Checkerboard farmlands of the wide-flung Virginia valley. And as its shadow slid on past orchard and meadow an ominous silence fell on all feathered creatures feeding in the late afternoon sunlight.
Old Sam Carter, stolidly hoeing in his bean-field, stopped to mop his brow and glance at the lowering sun. As he did so he caught sight of the slow-planing bird of prey above him. He turned and squinted towards the tree-shadowed house, where he saw his daughter Ruth taking her dish-towels in from the currant-bushes. He called to her quietly, and then by pantomime indicated that he wanted his gun to shoot down this hovering enemy of their hen-run.
The bright-faced girl must have understood his signals, for a
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Author of "Phantom Wires," "The Wire Tappers," "The Gun Runner, " "Manhandled" and other stories.
By Arthur Stringer
Illustrated by Douglas Duer
moment later she emerged from the house-door with the old muzzle-loader resting in the crook of her sun-browned arm. Old Sam's glance was still aloft as, without speaking, he took the gun from the girl's hand. They stood side by side waiting for the planing wings to drift overhead. The girl even placed her finger-tips against her ears, in dread of the coming explosion.
But no explosion took place. Instead, a strange thing happened. Suddenly, out of the blue where it floated, the