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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 thisbook may at times seem, they are, nevertheless,a fairly exact recording of the feats of magicalready accomplished by the electrical wizards ofour 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
As Johnny Thompson put out a hand toring the door bell of that brownstonehouse facing the deserted grounds of the ChicagoCentury of Progress and the lake, thedoo