Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A Mystery Story for Boys WHISPERS AT DAWN or The Eye by ROY J. SNELL The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago Copyright, 1934 by the Reilly & Lee Co. Printed in the U.S.A. _AUTHOR'S NOTE:_ _Fantastic as the happenings recorded in this book may at times seem, they are, nevertheless, a fairly exact recording of the feats of magic already accomplished by the electrical wizards of our time._ Roy J. Snell. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Three Black Boxes 11 II Something Rather Terrible 28 III The Battle 39 IV Back in the Old Shack 48 V Past and Present 57 VI A Store in Chicago 62 VII The Unholy Five 73 VIII Down a Beam of Light 78 IX Cut Adrift 85 X A Runaway Captured 92 XI A Room of Strange Magic 103 XII The Whisperer Returns 109 XIII So Long as God Gives Us Breath 124 XIV A Human Spider 134 XV A Living Picture 145 XVI A Strange Treasure 155 XVII "The Eye" 164 XVIII The Trap Is Sprung 171 XIX A Whisper from Afar 183 XX The Sky Slider 193 XXI Christmas Eve 204 XXII The Warning 214 XXIII A Promise That Is a Threat 221 XXIV A Strange Victory 231 XXV The Whisperer Talks 240 WHISPERS AT DAWN or _The Eye_ CHAPTER I THREE BLACK BOXES