E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22079-h.htm or 22079-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/0/7/22079/22079-h/22079-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/0/7/22079/22079-h.zip) THE BRIGHTON BOYS IN THE RADIO SERVICE by LIEUTENANT JAMES R. DRISCOLL Illustrated [Illustration: "At Least Ten Thousand of Them," He Announced.] The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia Copyright, 1918, by John C. Winston Company CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. "FOR UNCLE SAM" 9 II. INTO THE SERVICE--A SPY 21 III. UNEXPECTED ACTION 34 IV. FAREWELL, UNITED STATES 43 V. THE FIGHT IN THE WIRELESS ROOM 54 VI. THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON CROSS 67 VII. THE TIMELY RESCUE 77 VIII. THE DEATH OF THE SPY 88 IX. THE PERISCOPE AT DAWN 101 X. FRANCE AT LAST 110 XI. TAPPING THE ENEMY'S WIRE 118 XII. THE S O S WITH PISTOL SHOTS 131 XIII. THE CAVE OF DEATH 140 XIV. DESPERATE MEASURES 153 XV. THE SURPRISE ATTACK--PROMOTION 164 XVI. A TIGHT PLACE 176 XVII. THE LIEUTENANT'S INVENTION 191 XVIII. SLIM GOODWIN A PRISONER 200 XIX. TURNING THE TABLES 211 XX. THE GREAT NEWS 221 ILLUSTRATIONS "At Least Ten Thousand of Them," He Announced Frontispiece PAGE There was an Instant of Terrible Whirling about the Room 66 They had Accidentally Discovered an Enemy Wire and had Tapped It 130 Scores of Huge Armored Tanks Rolled Through 168 The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service CHAPTER I "FOR UNCLE SAM" "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their----" It was that old practice sentence of typists, which is as old as are typewriting machines, and Joe Harned, seated before the told-style, noisy, but still capable machine in Philip Burton's telegraph office, had rattled it off twenty-five times and was on his twenty-sixth when suddenly, very suddenly, his mind began to work.