tude fifty degrees and ten minutes or thereabouts?"
"That was just about where we were when we struck," said the captain of the unfortunate Spray. I believe that was the S.O.S. I sent out."
"Good!" cried Captain Perkins. "For once my Eben's plaything has done some one some good.
"You see my boy Eben is a dabster at wireless an' when we came off on this here voyage, he said as how he wanted to rig up a wireless. So I said, 'Go ahead. I guess it won't do any harm.' Well, last night he said as how the stuff was aflyin' around pretty thick an' as how he wanted to set up for a spell an' see what he could hear. So he happened to be a listinin' in, as he calls it, when you hollered for help. An' by jimmerny crickets! he managed to get your position just right. We was only a few miles to the south, so we headed straight for your call. When we got there, as near as we could calculate, we didn't see a durn thing, but just a great sort of pig pen cage floating about with a gol-darned
