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Title: The Boy Scouts' Mountain Camp
Author: John Henry Goldfrap
Release Date: February 16, 2013 [eBook #42102]
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THE BOY SCOUTS’
MOUNTAIN CAMP
BY
LIEUT. HOWARD PAYSON
AUTHOR OF “THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE EAGLE PATROL,”
“THE BOY SCOUTS ON THE RANGE,”
“THE BOY SCOUTS AND THE ARMY AIRSHIP,” ETC.
WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS
BY R. M. BRINKERHOFF
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1912,
BY
HURST & COMPANY
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I. A Typical Boy Scout 5
- II. Two Mysterious Men 16
- III. The Major Explains 30
- IV. The Narrative Continued 39
- V. A Midnight Auto Dash 51
- VI. In Direst Peril 66
- VII. Adrift in the Storm 76
- VIII. Eagles on the Trail 86
- IX. What Scout Hopkins Did 97
- X. A Rescue and a Bivouac 109
- XI. The Mountain Camp 121
- XII. Captured 132
- XIII. Rob Finds a Ray of Hope 144
- XIV. A Thrilling Escape 155
- XV. Out of the Frying Pan 167
- XVI. Into the Fire! 177
- XVII. “We Want You.” 187
- XVIII. Jumbo Earns $500.00—and Loses It 197
- XIX. The Forest Monarch 206
- XX. The Canoes Found 216
- XXI. “The Ruby Glow.” 225
- XXII. The Buccaneer’s Cave 238
- XXIII. Trapped in a Living Tomb 248
- XXIV. Two Columns of Smoke 264
- XXV. The Heart of the Mystery—Conclusion 276
The Boy Scouts’ Mountain Camp.
CHAPTER I.
A TYPICAL BOY SCOUT.
“Hullo, Rob; what’s up?”
Merritt Crawford stopped on his way past the Hampton post-office, and hailed Rob Blake, the leader of the Eagle Patrol, of which Merritt was corporal. Both lads wore the natty scout uniform.
“Not a thing is up or down, either,” rejoined Rob, with a laugh; “it looks as if things had stopped happening in Hampton ever since that schooner was blown up.”
“And Jack Curtiss’s hopes of a fortune with it,” added Merritt. “Well, I’m off home. Going that way?”
“Yes, I’ll be with you in a—— Hullo, what’s happening?”
From farther up the street, at one end of which lay the glistening sheet of water known as Hampton Inlet, there came excited shouts. Then, suddenly, into the field of vision there swept, with astonishing rapidity, a startling sight.
A large automobile was coming toward