A West Point Treasure; Or, Mark Mallory's Strange Find

Grace Fuller was safe then, and everybody knew it. But somehow that crowd did not give a single cheer; in fact, every one seemed to have forgotten that she and Fischer were ther...

The afternoon of that momentous day passed without incident. Mark noticed Bull Harris glowering at him as he passed his tent, but beyond that the “subduing” programme got no fur...

It was an uncanny business wandering about a dark house at night; it is especially so if it be a strange house and if one knows for certain that there is a desperate burglar cre...

Three more utterly discouraged and disgusted plebes than our friends would be hard to manufacture. There wasn’t a ray of hope, any more than a ray of light to illumine that dark...

The story of the sacred geese that saved the city of Rome is known to every schoolboy. Not so long ago the classic Parson, of the Banded Seven, told of a spider who saved the li...

The cause of this exclamation was Dewey. At the moment his uniform was dirty and torn, and his face was far from handsome. It was bruised and blue in lumps, and there were ugly...

The walk through that mountain forest was one to be remembered for some time. In the first place, the Parson had been provident enough to fee a drum orderly to steal him a spade...

What a lot of grewsomeness a little match can remove, to be sure! This one did not solve the mysteries of that wondrous cave, but it removed most of the horror of the explorers....

Mr. Timothy O’Flaherty was a tramp. That was the plain unvarnished statement of the case. Mr. O’Flaherty would have called himself a knight of the road, and a comic editor would...

“Now,” said Mark, when he rejoined his companions, “we’ve got pretty definite information to go on with now. Mr. Chandler’s got our money in his room. The question is what are w...

It was the evening of the following day, and the scene was Highland Falls. It was about twelve o’clock at night, to be more exact as to time; as to place, the scene was a low ta...

“Say, Texas, didn’t I tell you I wanted to sleep this hour? Haven’t I been awake now two nights in succession helping you haze the yearlings? Now I want to take a nap; so let me...

Mark, who asked the question, was yawning sleepily as he sat up from his bed, a pile of blankets on the floor of his tent. It was about five o’clock Sunday morning, and the boom...

Our business just now is with Parson Stanard, the scholarly geologist and chemist, sitting all by himself in his silent tent and diligently analyzing his hematites and gottabite...

The excitement which resulted from Texas’ amazing discovery may be imagined. If he had found a “Megatherium,” feet and all, there could not have been more interest. Texas was dr...

Dress parade, which took place immediately after the above occupied the time until supper. It was growing dark by the time the battalion marched back from mess hall, and the ple...

Something which happened immediately after Fischer left the tent effectually drove from Mark’s mind all ideas of fights and first classmen. It was the blessed long-expected sign...

The state of mind of the Seven cannot be described. A moment before they had been upon a pinnacle of success and happiness. And now it seemed that they had climbed but that thei...

“Yes,” said Mark, “even carpets. It seems that this place was once the den of a gang of counterfeiters. I see you open your eyes in surprise. We found all their dies and molds a...

The taunting of which Mark spoke with such grim and quiet determination was soon to begin; in fact, he was not destined to lie down for that night of rest without a taste of it....

Imagine, if you can, the state of mind of the agonized four when the import of those terrible words burst upon them. They were locked in! And tied, each one of them, so that the...

Some ten minutes after Bull Harris vanished in the shadow of the hotel, two figures came down the stairs, bearing a heavy burden between them. There was no one in the neighborho...

The Seven were waiting for a summons to drill, and sitting in one of the tents of the summer encampment. The cadet who was answering the questions was Mark. He had just entered...

“He won’t get a chance to use his guns this time,” snarled the first speaker. “And we’ve got enough of a crowd to handle any of the others if they wake up. Ready, now!”

He was a tall, handsome lad, with a frank, pleasant face, and a wealth of curly brown hair. He wore a close-fitting gray jacket and trousers. The uniform of a West Point “plebe,...

Texas started back in surprise; at the same moment came the shot, which was from the girl’s revolver. It was accidental, as she afterward declared, though the plebes did not kno...

The Parson seemed about ready to devour that “fossil.” He seized it and plumped himself down in a chair with a thud. He paused just long enough to deposit his “Dana” upon the fl...

It was a strangely accoutered cavalcade that set out from this West Point camp an hour or so later. The Parson, as guide and temporary chief, led the way, having his beloved “Da...

The sergeant had gotten over his anger, but he meant to be consistent, all the same. If this was another one of those “bloated aristocrats” he’d better look out for trouble, tha...

“Having warned you of this disagreeable possibility nothing now remains for me to do but wish you the best possible luck in your quarrel with the first class, and so sign myself,

gentlemen. My mind is made up. That treasure, revealed to me under such circumstances, I am determined to secure, and that in spite of whatever dangers I may meet, whatever foes...