The Young Railroaders / Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	One Kind Of Wireless	3
II.	An Original Emergency Battery	24
III.	A Tinker Who Made Good	38
IV.	The Other Tinker Also Makes Good	54
V.	An Electrical Detective	68
VI.	Jack Has His Adventure	86
VII.	A Race Through The Flames	102
VIII.	The Secret Telegram	117
IX.	Jack Plays Reporter, With Unexpected Results	132
X.	A Runaway Train	146
XI.	The Haunted Station	163
XII.	In A Bad Fix, And Out	180
XIII.	Professor Click, Mind Reader	198
XIV.	The Last Of The Freight Thieves	225
XV.	The Dude Operator	246
XVI.	A Dramatic Flagging	262
XVII.	Wilson Again Distinguishes Himself	279
XVIII.	With The Construction Train	295
XIX.	The Enemy’s Hand Again, And A Capture	310
XX.	A Prisoner	325
XXI.	Turning The Tables	337
XXII.	The Defense Of The Viaduct	357

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The next moment the Midway Junction ghost stepped grimly from his box.	Frontispiece
“Now I am going to cut your cords,” Alex went on softly.	8
Held it over the bull’s-eye, alternately covering and uncovering the stream of light.	14
Threw himself at the front door, pounding upon it with his fists.	28
In the middle of the floor, the center of all eyes, hurriedly working with chisel and hammer.	34
He was gazing into the barrel of a revolver.	58
But the response click did not come.	64
The clerk was colorless, but only faltered an instant.	78
“There!” said Jack, pointing in triumph.	84
Looped it over the topmost strand, near one of the posts.	94
There, in the corner of the big barn, Jack sent as he had never sent before.	100
With a rush they dashed into the wall of smoke.	108
Closer came the roaring monster.	114
“Come on! Come on!” exclaimed the man in the doorway.	124
“How did you do it, Smarty?” snapped the shorter man.	130
They whirled by, and the rest was lost.	154
The engineer stepped down from his cab to grasp Alex’s hand.	158
The wait was not long.	162
Jack made out a thin, clean-shaven face bending over a dark-lantern.	176
The stranger drew the chair immediately before him, and seating himself, leaned forward secretively.	182
“And it’s awfully like the light, jumpy sending of a girl!”	196
The next instant Jack felt himself hurled out into the darkness.	234
He saw the detective led by, his arms bound behind him.	242
Jack rose to his knees, and began working his way forward from tie to tie.	272
With the sharp words he again grasped the key.	276
With the boys’ prisoner securely bound to the saddle of the wandering horse, the Indian was off across the plain.	372
The Indian pulled up in a cloud of dust.	376

THE YOUNG RAILROADERS

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