her message from the mysterious whisperer. No further message came. Had

w, she found her strange uncle

is nothing to unpack. Not many people will come. They come only when

hought with an in

oward an aged woman bending over a pile of soiled garments. "Toda

for the Whisperer. She heard nothing. He spoke, apparent

th a narrow bandage still about his head, he returned to the "House of Ma

eted him. "I have not tried that new thing. We will be

Johnny felt a thril

e. The grounds are deserted. I have permission to use the b

here there are crowds. Felix was to l

Fair grounds Felix presented

a small truck," he explain

he was to look, listen, help all he could and not ask questions. "I'll be told all I need to know in good

some great man-made dragon opened its mouth as if to swallow them, there a tattered sign fluttered and cracked in the

Yes, he was sure of it. And there, well defined against a wall, were the shadows of two h

e had gone plodding stolidly on into the gathering

consternation, John

him they were at the spot

time arrangement that will set the electrically operated drum, winding us back down again in two hou

her strange arrangement.

n the grounds unless they ha

limb in, and

ense of insecurity as they rose a hundred, two hundred, three hundred feet into

ming. "Where," he thought, "are Drew and Tom? Hunting pickpockets perhaps. And where is Captain Burns? I'm going to like him, I'm su

e broken in upon

t the top. Now

ect this through a switch, aim my light at a window in our house, take up this mic

ernation. "The current is off

g over the side of the balloon basket in which they rode

der boy's voice. "We're going out into the nigh

those two!" Jo

?" Felix

one and a short one-anyway I saw th

y haven't got us-not yet!" There was courage and high resolve

Johnny silen

d. He was once more in that place of mystery, the professor's house, in the hallway seeing eyes in th