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TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE
seemed to recollect himself, and stopped suddenly. "Tell them to hurry," he begged Tom. The whole crowd of castaways, save the women, were gathered about the wireless shack.
"They'll need to hurry," spoke Mr. Parker, the gloomy scientist. "The island may sink before morning!"
Mr. Hosbrook and the others glared at him, but he seemed to take delight in his prediction.
Suddenly the wireless instruments hummed.
"Another message," whispered Tom. He listened.
"The 'Cambaranian' will rush here with all speed," he announced, and not a heart there on that lonely and desolate island but sent up a prayer of thankfulness.
