Chapter I: Front Matter

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Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).

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 this book may at times seem, they are, nevertheless, a fairly exact recording of the feats of magic already accomplished by the electrical wizards of our 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_