New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club

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Authors: Bertrand R. Brinley, Charles Geer
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here?"
            The
reporter howled in anguish. "I was here first!" he complained.
"I have to get my copy in for a special edition. If you make me miss it,
and the TV stations get the story first, my boss will fire me!"
           
"Oh!" said Henry.
           
"Gosh, mister, we wouldn't want you to get fired over a little thing like
six kids trapped in a cave," said Freddy Muldoon.
            "I
didn't mean it that way," said the reporter. "But this is a big
story, and it's happening right in our backyard. Did you see what the TV
networks did with the little girl that was trapped in a well out in Omaha last
month? They kept the whole nation glued to their TV sets for three days. Can
you imagine what they'll do when they have six kids trapped in a cave?"
           
"Yeah! I can imagine!" said Mortimer.
           
"Well? Do I get to talk to the kids?"
            Henry
shrugged.
           
"Say, what is this?" said the reporter truculently. "Are you in
charge here?"
           
"No, I'm not in charge," said Henry, "but it's my intercom
set."
           
"Oh! I get it!" The reporter reached for his wallet. "How would
five bucks do?"
           
"You just said the magic word," said Freddy Muldoon.
            "I
don't want your money, mister," said Henry, pushing his hand in Freddy's
face. "Wait until the TV crew gets here and we'll let everybody talk to
them at the same time."
            The
reporter threw his hands in the air and turned away. Then a thought struck him,
and he pulled the photographer to one side. In a voice loud enough for everyone
to hear he said, "What do you bet there aren't any kids down in that cave
at all? You know, it's just possible these kids framed the whole thing."
           
"Hey, that's right!" said the photographer.
            "We
don't know there's anybody down there. Say! That'd make a pretty good
story too."
            Jeff
stepped over to Henry. "I think maybe we'd better let 'em talk to
Harmon."
           
"OK!" said Henry. "I guess we'd better."
            He
managed to get Harmon to answer on the intercom after some trouble, and the
reporter talked with him. Harmon said he was fine and gave him the names of the
other five members of his gang that were with him. He woke up Stony Martin and
had him talk to the reporter too. The photographer held the microphone of a
tape recorder to the speaker while they were talking and taped the whole
conversation.
           
"Are you worried about getting out?" asked the reporter.
           
"Naw! We're not worried," said Harmon.
           
"I'm sure they'll have you out in fine shape very soon," said the
reporter cheerfully.
           
"Tell 'em to take their time," said Harmon, yawning. "As long as
we get home in time for breakfast, it's OK."
           
"Boy! Have we got a story!" crowed the reporter, as he stuffed his
notes into his pocket. "'Tell 'em to take their time,' the kid says. Can
you imagine it? Boy! The wires'll eat this up!"
           
"Hey! I bet we could peddle this tape to all the networks!" said the
photographer as they hustled up the path to the highway.
           
"Aren't you going to stick around to see if they get out?" Mortimer
shouted after them.
           
"Sorry!" the reporter shouted back. "We got a deadline to
meet."
            And they
were gone.
           
"What a creep!" said Dinky Poore.
            By the
time the TV crew arrived from White Fork, things had reached an impasse. Some
men had been sent out in small boats to reconnoiter the ledge below the falls
to see if it were possible to anchor cables there so fire ladders could be run
out from the shore. But they came back reporting no success. Mayor Scragg had
called a conference under the big oak tree to get opinions on what would be the
best way to proceed. It appeared that the most feasible plan would be to build
some kind of footing in the creek bed for the big construction crane to work
from. The Mayor was

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