Mystery of the Glowing Eye by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure
ISBN: 9780448095516
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1974-02-01T10:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XII

Hidden Notes

BURT and Dave bent over the sending set, trying to figure out how the various gadgets worked.

“This is a complicated one,” Dave remarked.

George, who had had a little coaching along these lines from her father, an electronic engineer, made several valuable suggestions.

“Where are the call letters?” she asked.

The young people examined every inch of the set but could find none.

“I wonder whom the kidnapper was calling? Some pal? Or a member of a Cyclops gang?” George asked.

The boys said they wished they knew and went on with their examination, hoping desperately to get the set to respond. Finally they hit the right combination and in a moment Burt’s signal was answered.

He said, “Calling from station without call letters. Who are you?”

The listener seemed reluctant to reply and asked, “Why don’t you have call letters? Everybody does.”

“We’re in trouble here. Owner is away. No clue to call letters,” Burt told him.

The ham radio operator turned out to be answering from a town not far away.

Burt told him he was calling from a swamp and then said, “There are five of us here. It’s near Arbutus. Will you phone the police department and ask if they’ll come out here? We’ve made an important discovery about a missing person.”

Nancy stood listening. She began to shake her head to indicate that Burt had told enough. He nodded and put a finger over his lips to indicate he understood.

“Will you please do this for us?” Burt asked the ham. “I’m Burt Eddleton. I attend Emerson College. You can check there if you like.”

The man said he would be glad to help and asked, “Where are you?”

Burt gave him directions from Arbutus, then said, “Over.”

Nancy and her friends hoped fervently that the ham would not think the message was some kind of a joke and pay no attention to it.

“There’s nothing we can do but wait,” said Bess with a sigh.

“In the meantime,” Nancy spoke up, “we can continue searching this place.”

All but Nancy went outside to look for clues. She felt that if Ned had been outdoors, he would have tried to escape and not bothered, or had time, to leave a clue.

“More than likely he was kept in one spot, either chained up or threatened with dire punishment if he tried to get away. We know he used this cot,” Nancy thought, gazing at it for a full minute.

She decided to pull the cot apart to see if anything was hidden inside. First she took off two blankets, shook them vigorously, and looked over every inch of them.

She found nothing. Next, Nancy picked up the mattress and laid it on the floor. To her amazement, she saw dozens of small note-pad sheets with Ned’s writing on them lying on the springs. Eagerly she picked up one and read the message which looked as if it had been hurriedly scrawled.

There was a date on the paper. The day Ned was kidnapped!

The note said, “Cannot understand why I was kidnapped when Cyclops could have stolen what he wants if he had waited a little longer.

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