Chapter 22 HOPE AND DESPAIR

"Tat! Tat! T-t-tat!" It was working, the radio code was coming in! They were in touch!

The wonder of it! From this lone camp out here on the drift ice, the operator with his patched-up radio set was in voice connection with lands hundreds-yes, thousands of miles away.

Some metal strips wired together, their bases banked in snow, lifted their