A hundred yards from shore he hazarded a backward glance, and saw the wind sweeping across the bay, a line of turbulent tossing spray. (Page 60) Frontispiece.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Camp on Long Point 9

II Forbidden Fruit 17

III The Shark 26

IV The Man in the Dory 33

V Perplexed 44

VI Loon Island 50

VII The Lightning Flash 57

VIII The Plot 64

IX Through Storm and Darkness 71

X His Bit 77

XI The Last Night 86

XII “What is Scouting For?” 94

XIII The Tallerico Kid 101

XIV Quick Wit and Courage 110

XV The Scout Rally 119

XVI Roughneck Garrity 127

XVII Learning to Box 135

XVIII The Boy Who Couldn’t Swim 141

XIX A Score is Paid 147

XX The Haunted Cabin 155

XXI The Log Cabin Fund 165

XXII The Appeal 173

XXIII Good Turns Like Chickens 180

XXIV The Face in the Window 186

XXV The Man with No Hair 193

XXVI The Hidden Wireless 201

XXVII Micky Disappears 207

XXVIII To the Rescue 213

XXIX Escape 221

XXX The Lonely Soldier 230

XXXI The Parting of the Ways 241

BOY SCOUTS
ON THE TRAIL

CHAPTER I
THE CAMP ON LONG POINT

Stout Harry Ritter gave a sudden chortle of glee and looked up from the copy of the “Long Point Snort” he was languidly perusing in the shade of some cedars behind Tent Four.

“Say, fellows, have you seen this