Waylaid by Wireless

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Waylaid by Wireless (1909)
by Edwin Balmer

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A mystery novel, and Balmer's first published novel

3403859Waylaid by Wireless1909Edwin Balmer

WAYLAID BY WIRELESS

"These big 'wireless' boats," she said sympathetically, "never let one get well away from trouble, even upon the ocean, do they?"

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WAYLAID
BY WIRELESS

A Suspicion, a Warning, a
Sporting Proposition, and
a Transatlantic Pursuit

BY
EDWIN BALMER

ILLUSTRATED BY
EDMUND FREDERICK

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1909
By Small, Maynard & Company
(incorporated)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

To my Mother

CONTENTS

PAGE
I.	The Suspicion	1
II.	The Circuit of Crime	16
III.	The Girl to the Rescue	36
IV.	The Foreboding Briton	45
V.	The Warning and a Dare	61
VI.	Robbery Again—with a Safe Conduct	85
VII.	Challenged!	102
VIII.	A Preference for Blind Belief	129
IX.	A Libel on the Thief	146
X.	"Wireless"—and a Wounded Wrist	164
XI.	Under the Wing of the Wireless	204
XII.	Manling on Board	223
XIII.	The Sporting Proposition	240
XIV.	The "Protector" Attacked	262
XV.	Stolen Goods!	281
XVI.	"Annie Laurie"	298
XVII.	A Message from Manling—with Postscript by "Wireless"	318

ILLUSTRATIONS

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"These big 'wireless' boats," she said sympathetically, "never let one get well away from trouble, even upon the ocean, do they?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		Frontispiece
Far off to starboard the extreme point of Cornwall slid into the sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		54
"The Hibernia relayed the message to us. An American, they say, six feet, tanned, dark hair and eyes, gray clothes" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		120
Something made her apprehensive and kept her from sensing the pages she turned as she tried to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		178
"I know I mustn't try to tell you how I—I feel about the wonderful—the incredible way you have accepted me through all this queer business" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		214
"And really, you know, I almost wish he might get away with this 'wireless' business, too" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		284
"Really, a police examination added to quarantine and your beastly customs inquisition would be the last straw now, would it not?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		322

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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