BOY SCOUTS IN SOUTHERN WATERS

OR SPANIARD'S TREASURE CHEST

By

G. HARVEY RALPHSON

Author of
BOY SCOUTS IN THE NORTH SEA
UNDER FIRE IN FLANDERS
BOY SCOUTS IN AN AIRSHIP
BOY SCOUTS IN A MOTOR BOAT

1915

CONTENTS

I. A COLLISION IN THE FOG

II. CRIPPLED BY THE STRANGER

III. A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE

IV. THE HOLE IN THE BOAT

V. WIG-WAGGING A WARNING

VI. A MAROONED BOY SCOUT

VII. THEIR PIRATE PRISONER

VIII. JACK STRICKEN BY A BULLET

IX. A NIGHT ATTACK

X. FIRST AID AND AN ESCAPE

XI. AN ELUSIVE BOB WHITE

XII. SAVED BY A STRANGER

XIII. A FRUITLESS SEARCH

XIV. TWO BEAVERS IN PERIL

XV. A SURPRISE AT THE FORTUNA

XVI. RESCUE AND CAPTURE

XVII. WHAT BURNED IN THE CABIN

XVIII. SHANGHAIED!

XIX. TREACHERY EXPOSED

XX. RESCUED AT SEA

XXI. A FRIEND AND AN ENEMY

XXII. A DESPERATE ATTEMPT

XXIII. AT THE SPANISH FORT

XXIV. DEFEATED BY GREED

XXV. THE TREASURE

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Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Or The Spaniard's Treasure Chest

CHAPTER I

A COLLISION IN THE FOG

"Wow! Look at that one! That's a monster!"

"That must be the ninth wave."

"What do you mean by the ninth wave, Jack?"

"Why, Arnold, don't you know that every third wave is bigger than the two preceding it and that every ninth wave is bigger than the preceding eight?" queried Jack Stanley.

"No, can't say that I ever knew that," replied Arnold Poysor leaning out of the pilot house of a sturdy motor boat plowing her way through the waters of that part of the Gulf of Mexico known as Mississippi Sound. "But I do know," he continued, "that if the Fortuna takes many more green ones over her bow, we'll have