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While the four friends would have been congenial mates under any circumstances, they were drawn still more closely together by their joint interest in radio. They had been strongly attracted towards that marvelous science when its wonders first burst upon the world, and with every succeeding development of its magic qualities their interest had deepened and strengthened. They soon got to a point where it absorbed most of the time they could spare from their school studies and their sleep, and this became so apparent that they had been given the name of the “Radio Boys,” by which they were frequently referred to.

It is an honor sometimes to have enemies, and the Radio Boys were not without that honor. The tougher element of the youth of Clintonia had as their leader a fellow named Buck Looker, who, though his father was one of the richest men in the town, chose to associate with low companions. Two of them especially, Carl Lutz and Terence Mooney, were often with him and helped him carry out the tricks that Looker planned. The trio were united in a common hatred of the Radio Boys, upon whom they had tried to put over many scurvy schemes. The fact that these had been circumvented as a rule made them all the more bitter in their enmity.