of the three castaways to find that the island was subject to
earthquake shocks.

But the earth-tremors were not the only surprise in store for
Tom and his two friends, On the island they found five men and
two ladies, who, by strange chance, had been stranded there when
the yacht Resolute, owned by Mr. George Hosbrook, was wrecked in
the same storm that disabled the airship. Mr. Hosbrook, a
millionaire, was taking a party of friends to the West Indies.

When the castaways (among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Amos Nestor,
parents of Mary Nestor, a girl of whom Tom was very fond) found
that there was danger of the island being destroyed in an
earthquake, they were in despair. There seemed no way of being
rescued, as the island was out of the line of regular ship
travel.

Tom, however, was resourceful. With the electrical apparatus
from the wrecked airship, he built a wireless plant, and sent
messages for help, broadcast over the ocean.

They were finally heard, and answered, by an operator on board
the steamer Camberanian, which came on under forced draught, and
rescued Tom and his friends. It was only just in time, for, no
sooner had they gotten aboard the steamer in lifeboats, than the
whole island was destroyed by an earthquake shock.

But Tom, the parents of Mary Nestor, Mr. Damon, Mr. Fenwick,
and all the others, got safely home. Among the survivors from the
yacht Resolute was a Mr. Barcoe Jenks, who now, most unexpectedly,