Read "The Lakewood Boys in the South Sea Islands" by L.P. Wyman online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"Say yes, Dad."
"What do you say, Mother?"
Bob gave the order, and his father asked the question, while Jack and their uncle held their breath, waiting for her reply. Mrs. Lakewood looked first at one boy and then at the other.
"I believe I'll feel safer knowing that they're with Silas than to have them tramping goodness knows where, alone, and I've got pretty used to that," she smiled.
"That means we can go," Jack shouted, jumping up and giving his mother a bear-like hug.
"Save the pieces," she laughed.
"I'll take good care of them," their uncle promised.
"I know you will, Silas," she smiled as soon as Bob released her from another hug.
Followed busy days of preparation, interspersed with several trips which the boys insisted on taking with their uncle to show him some of the wonders of their State. But finally the night before their departure came, and as they were eating supper their father suddenly asked:
"How about that Photoradio? Going to take it with you?"
"What's that? " his brother asked eagerly. "Did I understand you to say a photoradio?"
"That's what you did. It's a machine the boys invented, and what's more, it works. Tell him about it, Bob."
"Well, I snum, what do you know about that? " His surprise was manifest in his voice and, as soon as the meal was over, he had to have a demonstration.
"Do you realize that there's a fortune in that thing? " he asked, when they had shown him what the machine would do.
"Maybe," Bob replied.
"No maybe about it," the other declared. "And when we get back I'm going to look into it, that is, provided you want me to."
"Of course we'd be glad to have you," Bob assured him. "But what do you think about taking it with us?"
"How far'll it work?"
"We've only tried it over a distance of about fifty miles."
"And it worked good that far?"