36xxxx 005 Tex Bradford Prepares His Straightoscope

After her baby daughter was lost in a shipwreck fourteen years ago, Mrs. Patricia Gregory started searching the world over in the hope that her little girl might still be alive. Now Mrs. Gregory is again in the south seas, and with her on her private yacht are Captain Tex Bradford and Jerry Hall.

Jerry was a young radio operator in Los Angles who received the first mysterious message about an old sailor having seen the Magic Island and a little white girl on it. The yacht is lying now completely be calmed near a strange bank of fog.

I tell you, you've got to believe me. You've got to believe me. Don't get so excited, Jerry. We can hear you without your shouting like that. Yeah, let's take it easy, kid. Oh, I'm sorry. But this is something to get excited about.

You know that fog bank over there is not fog. Don't you, Captain Bratford? Well, it doesn't act like any fog I ever saw, Jerry, but what else could it be? could it be? But Mrs. Gregory, you still think it's fog, don't you? What else can I think? Well, you can think about the story of the old sailor told and the magic island.

That fog, well, or whatever it is out there, is just where the old man said we'd find the island, isn't it? Right to the inch boy. And this yacht was up against it, in it. But we didn't get wet or cold from it. Fog is wet, isn't it? Yeah, it was And Captain Bradford's fog machine has always made a hole through every other fog you tried it on, hasn't it, Tex?