Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
On a sizzling hot afternoon near the middle of August, in the year nineteen eleven, three boys dressed in the khaki uniform of the Boy Scouts of America stood on a lofty plateau near the British frontier, watching with anxious eyes the broken country to the south and west.
"I don't understand what question he is asking," Jack said, "but I know how he makes the signal. He has an electric flashlight, and he tips the plane--the upper plane--forward,...
7. CHAPTER VII.--A KEY WITH A BROKEN STEM.The lights were burning low in a bachelor flat on a noisy street corner in the city of San Francisco, and a man of perhaps thirty lay on a couch with his eyes closed. There were...
11. CHAPTER XI.--THE LUCK OF A BOWERY BOY.Jimmie opened his eyes and looked about. It was a gloomy niche in a perpendicular wall that he looked out of. Rock to right and left and rear. In front a velvet summer sky, with...
19. CHAPTER XIX.--THE MAN BEHIND THE SCENES.The younger man broke into a harsh laugh and turned to those who had just entered. Slocum and Chang Chee were whispering together, and a dangerous looking knife showed in the ha...
15. CHAPTER XV.--TOLD BY THE FOREST RANGER.The rangers, almost exhausted, were fighting the fire desperately, hoping against hope, when the cyclone--it amounted at times almost to that--struck the forest. Then they knew...
1. CHAPTER I.--A MOUNTAIN MYSTERY.On a sizzling hot afternoon near the middle of August, in the year nineteen eleven, three boys dressed in the khaki uniform of the Boy Scouts of America stood on a lofty plateau...
6. CHAPTER VI.--ABOVE THE CLOUDS AT NIGHT.The wind gained strength as the heat of the forest fires increased. The roaring of the gale and the heavy undertone of the racing flames effectually drowned the voice of the for...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--OFF ON A DESPERATE MISSION.Ned stood perfectly still in the darkness and listened. He could hear the click of the keys and nothing else. At length he moved stealthily forward over an even surface, feeling...
16. CHAPTER XVI.--HOW A CAT TREED A WOLF.Smoke still hung over the "burn." Now and then it was swept aside by a gust of wind which seemed now to blow out of the east, and so did not come sizzling with the heat of burne...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE REVELATION OF A TRAGEDY.Ned looked the tins over carefully. They were well covered with Chinese characters, and were dirty, as if they had been hidden away in the earth for a long time.
18. CHAPTER XVIII.--TWO INANIMATE WITNESSES.It was very still in the bachelor apartment, and, as on the occasion of his previous visit, Nestor saw, as he slipped through the doorway leading from the private hall, that the...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE AEROPLANE IN DANGER.A strong wind came out of the Western Sea at ten o'clock that night and swept the lofty plateau as a woman might have swept it with a new broom. Ned and Frank, pursuing their in...
10. CHAPTER X.--CHASING THE MILKY WAY.While the boys were exchanging experiences with Ernest Whipple, talking over Boy Scout matters and arranging for a sleeping place for the stranger, Ned was busy with his aeropla...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--THE BATTLE IN THE AIR.The smoke was driving fiercely through the green trees on the slope, and the line of fire was not far in the rear. Every moment the wind gained force, every minute the flames le...
9. CHAPTER IX.--THE CHAOS OF A BURNING WORLD.That was a day long to be remembered in the Great Northwest. It is true that the destruction of life and property at that time by no means equaled the ruin wrought by the forest...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--FATE OF THE STEAK A LA BRIGAND.Jimmie lay stretched at full length under one of the discolored shelter tents in a little cup in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Frank and Pat and Jack were moving restlessly...
12. CHAPTER XII.--A MEMBER OF THE OWL PATROL.When Jimmie awoke the fire which had burned in the cavern had gone out, and those who remained in the chamber seemed to be fast asleep. He tumbled out of his alcove, still feeli...
17. CHAPTER XVII.--THE TIME FOR THE ROUND-UP."Cripes!" cried Jimmie. "Don't shoot unless you kill him, for he'll jump at me then for sure. He's angry now--hear him pound with his tail? I fired all my loads at him an' he do...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE SIGNAL IN THE SKY.Frank left the cavern in a moment and walked along the beach toward the campfire. His thought was to gather embers and fresh fuel and build up a blaze at the end of the cave whi...