The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty

The captain's prophecy was literally fulfilled, and the boys had no opportunity for fairweather games the next day. Instead, clad in oilskins, they lounged about the wet decks,...

It was not until the second day of the voyage back toward Santario that Hugh felt quite himself again. The nervous strain of his experiences as a captive would have been enough...

At the beginning of the fight, Hugh wakened from a troubled sleep into which he had fallen, wearied with fruitless efforts to break the lock of the door. One thought was ever in...

The captain's oracular advice mystified the boys until, seated by their evening camp fire of driftwood, he explained to them that the mysterious box might be filled with article...

"Perhaps they're smugglers," was his first thought. "If they are, I'd be doing a real service to Uncle Sam if I could report their whereabouts to the _Petrel_ when she comes bac...

Hours later, when the _Arrow_ was finally clear of the bar, she veered around and made down the coast, passing the little bay where the canoe had landed. So occupied with the di...

As yet, neither the soldiers nor the revenue men had appeared on the scene. In spite of his shrewd guess, Norton began to believe that the smugglers, having come to the conclusi...

The question came in a whisper from Billy, as he and the Seminole pursued their way cautiously along the edge of a watercourse, in the direction of the cabins. Bending forward,...

When Hugh regained his senses, about half an hour later, he found himself lying on the bottom of a canoe, bound and gagged, staring up at the sky. The sun beat down upon him, fu...

In the wake of an easterly squall the sloop _Arrow_, Lemuel Vinton master and owner, was making her way along the low coast, southward, from Snipe Point, one of the islands in F...

"Arms,---leastways, cartridges or gunpowder. They ain't tryin' to smuggle 'em _into_ Fluridy, but _out_ of it," he explained. "Some gang of raskils is buyin' small quantities of...

Had it been daylight, the boy scouts on picket duty would have seen the same long, low, gray craft something like a built-for-speed tug boat, which had surprised Captain Vinton...