Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
“Listen to Billy talk, just as if the whole burden had been resting on _his_ shoulders, when everybody knows Arthur Cameron and our efficient scout master, Hugh Hardin, have done about all the tough work!”
Ralph was alongside as he turned the corner of the old smithy. The other scouts had hardly known what to do, although several of the most active seemed to be in motion, headed f...
5. CHAPTER IV.“Over on the other side of the plant,” came the reply. “You see I was just prowling around, curious to discover what lay there, because none of our fellows had bothered taking a...
1. CHAPTER I.“Listen to Billy talk, just as if the whole burden had been resting on _his_ shoulders, when everybody knows Arthur Cameron and our efficient scout master, Hugh Hardin, have don...
7. CHAPTER VI.“This makes me think of some of the bully times we’ve had in days gone by,” Billy Worth was saying at the moment Hugh entered the new camp, “and we expected company from town, a...
8. CHAPTER VII.If a bomb had been dropped into the camp, it could hardly have created more of a shock, so far as Hugh, Dr. Richter, Nurse Jones, Alec Sands, and perhaps Ralph Kenyon were conce...
10. CHAPTER IX.“And if Monkey Stallings will lend me that electric torch he brought with him I might find a chance to make good use of the same,” observed Ralph who, being the best trailer in...
9. CHAPTER VIII.“Gee! that’s talking some, Ralph!” exclaimed Billy. “Hit it up, then, and tell us who’s the guilty party. It’s going to make our job a whole lot easier if we know who we’re chas...
12. CHAPTER XI.“There’s a whole pack of ’em in the bargain, at least four or five, because I c’n glimpse ’em every time the light swings back,” said Jack Dunham, a bit nervously.
13. CHAPTER XII.Hugh had already learned the nature of the building upon which they had come while following the trail of the three disgruntled former guards who had been let go when the sherif...
11. CHAPTER X.“Could we look into the room where the boy was asleep at the time he was stolen?” asked Hugh; and the sheriff at once manifested a desire to lead the way, Mr. Campertown followi...
4. CHAPTER III.“We’ve been wanting to tell you something this little while back, Hugh; but you seemed to be so wrapped up with what Dr. Richter was saying and doing that we’ve just kept waitin...
6. CHAPTER V.When the owner of the plant asked Hugh that strange question it flashed upon the scout master that his comrades had noticed the Red Cross nurse acting in a peculiar fashion at t...
2. CHAPTER II.“Listen!” said Bud Morgan, “I just heard the padrone here, who is in charge of these foreigners, say that man with the gray mustache is Mr. Campertown, who owns the cement works...
3. did. He, too, had been very much taken with the rosy-cheeked little chapwho sat in the big touring car alongside the owner of the cement plant. It gave him a bad feeling to even think of harm befalling such a fine lad through the desire for revenge...