A Mystery Story for Boys
MYSTERY WINGS
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
COPYRIGHT, 1935
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I The Mysterious Chinaman 11
- II A Strange Prophecy Comes True 23
- III The Thought Camera 33
- IV A Place of Great Magic 45
- V Johnny’s Think-O-Graphs 58
- VI Beside the Green-Eyed Dragon 63
- VII Mystery Ship 70
- VIII Strange Passengers 82
- IX “Who’s Afraid of a Chinaman?” 96
- X Clues from the Dust 103
- XI What an Eye! 112
- XII The Vanishing Chinaman 128
- XIII Secret of the Pines 135
- XIV The Steel-Fingered Pitcher 143
- XV The White Flare 155
- XVI A Tense Moment 162
- XVII A Narrow Escape 172
- XVIII The Flying Ball Team 181
- XIX A Revelation in Chinese 190
- XX Ether and Moth-Balls 200
- XXI Liquid Air—Almost 209
- XXII The Smoke Screen 220
MYSTERY WINGS
CHAPTER I
THE MYSTERIOUS CHINAMAN
“Pardon, my young friend!”
Johnny Thompson started at thesound of these words spoken by someone closebehind him. He had been seated in a cornerof the park. It was early evening, but quitedark. He sprang to his feet.
“Pardon! Please do not go away.” Therewas something reassuring in the slow easydrawl of the stranger. Johnny dropped backto his place. Next instant as the light of apassing car played upon the stranger, he wastempted to laugh. He found himself lookinginto the face of the smallest Chinaman he hadever known. To Johnny the expression “Who’safraid of a Chinaman?” was better known than“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?”
But what did this little man with his verymuch wrinkled face puckered into a strangesmile, want? Johnny leaned forward expectantly.
“You think hard. You are worried. Is itnot so?” The little man took a seat beside him.“All the time you think baseball. You do notplay. But