Fenn Masterson's Discovery; or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise

Mutual surprise showed on the face of Fenn, as well as on the countenance of the man who made this surprising announcement in the cave, where we have left that rather unfortunat...

"I'm--I'm all right," gasped Fenn, faintly. "I was just tired out, that's all. I didn't swallow any water. There--there seemed to be some sort of a current setting against the s...

"I wonder if they could possibly be alive?" asked Fenn, as he hurried along, a little in the rear of the others, for, because of his stoutness, he was not a good runner. "I'll n...

"Hello!" exclaimed Fenn Masterson, as he opened the front door of his home, in response to a ring, and admitted his chum, Bart Keene. "Glad to see you, Bart. Come on in."

"What's the matter? Can't Captain Wiggs stop the ship?" cried Fenn, for it certainly looked as if the _Modoc_ was going to run, full tilt, into the flames, which were right at t...

But this time it proved to be the other way about. The two mysterious men, at the sight of the boys, dived back into the woods again, and showed no desire to come to closer acqu...

"All right," he said, good-naturedly, "there's no use alarming you. I'm not delirious. I never felt better in my life. That sleep I had was fine. My fever is all gone. But, go a...

Fenn had not gone very far, in pursuit of the two Chinamen and their white companion, before he became aware that he was not as strong as he thought he was. In his legs there wa...

From somewhere Captain Wiggs reached the deck on the jump. He tore past the boys on the run, and fairly burst into the door of the pilot house, where the first mate was in charge.

Ned, at the suggestion of the captain, put some salve on his wrist, for the cord had cut through the flesh. Then he had Bart bandage it up. This done the boys resumed their seat...

"Snub your rope, boys!" a voice suddenly called. "Snub her! That's the only way to hold her back! Take a half hitch around that stump, and you'll have her! She's got a little to...

Game was not so plentiful in the woods about the camp, as the three chums had hoped. Frank, Ned and Bart tramped along, keeping a close watch for anything that would promise to...

Following the finding of the Chinese button, and Frank's conclusion that the smugglers had carried Fenn off, the three chums, back in camp, startled by the terror the thought ga...

"Well, now, what's our program?" asked Frank when the four Darewell chums were in the railroad train, speeding through the outskirts of Duluth. "I s'pose Fenn will make a bee li...

This was the case for, as the boys watched, they saw the pig-tailed Celestial grasp his companion by the arm, and, pointing toward the lake, fairly pull him back along the path...

Fenn's brain was in a whirl. The manner of the girl, her strange words, her sudden fright when he had sought to recall to her what she had said, and her reference to a mysteriou...

Along the trail, which they had thus suddenly come upon, fairly ran Frank, Ned and Bart. Now that they were sure Fenn was ahead of them, though they could not tell how long sinc...

"I don't see anything very surprising in that," replied the commander. "Probably he has a laundry up there, and he was out looking for customers." And the commander winked at th...

"Don't get excited," counseled Frank coolly. "Wait until you see how bad it is. These steamers are all built with water-tight compartments, and it would take quite a hole to mak...

He gave the necessary orders, and soon the _Modoc_ was slowly approaching the disabled craft. The clouds of steam had somewhat dispersed, but that something was wrong was eviden...

Frank's announcement seemed to strike a cold chill to the hearts of Ned and Bart. Sickness was something with which they had seldom come in contact, and they did not know how to...

The boys soon found themselves mixed up in another part of the crowd, that had, apparently, come down a side street leading to the lake front. They had some trouble disengaging...

Under the forward gates, and through openings in them, the water was still bubbling and foaming, seeking to establish a level with that on the other side of the barrier. Lower a...

Fenn's fear, and his fierce desire to escape from the cave, lent him speed. Forward he went, faster than he had ever run before. Suddenly there loomed up before him a dim, hazy...

Captain Wiggs was not built on speed lines. He was short and squatty, and inclined to be fat. But the way in which he hustled about as soon as he heard what the sailor said was...

For several seconds after he had observed the man's head disappear down the hole in the ledge, Fenn waited. He wanted to see if the fellow had gone for reinforcements, or had re...

"I can't make anything out of her. It's a strange boat. Never saw her on the lakes before. And they seem to have an uncommon interest in us. A couple of men on deck are taking t...

Hardly had he spoken when, turning a corner in the shaft, the party came upon a curious scene. In a big chamber, the same one which Fenn had viewed from the crack in the door of...

"Got to find the boys! Captain Wiggs! _Modoc!_ Going on a cruise! Tell you later!" was what Fenn exclaimed in jerky sentences as he hurried down the side steps and out of the yard.

"You can talk about Ruth all you like," he said, "but, just the same, if you have any plans to beat a cruise on the Great Lakes, why--trot 'em out, that's all. We've got to go s...