The Mystery of Lost River Canyon

Bob became terribly excited and frightened when he found that his companion was gone, for he knew very well what it meant, and what it was likely to lead to. He did not believe...

“Don’t stop to look behind you, but back water the best you know how,” said Bob, seeing that his companion now and then ceased his exertions, and faced about on his seat to gaze...

Arthur found his father alone in the office, pacing the floor, with his hands in his pockets, and a look of triumph and exultation on his face; but, when his son entered, he san...

Still George made no reply. He simply raised his hand and pointed with his finger toward the middle of the valley. Bob looked, and then his own eyes began to open, and his pale...

George’s unexpected stroke of fortune put new life and energy into him, and he worked to such good purpose that in less than three-quarters of an hour the dinner was ready and w...

Uncle Bob sat alone in his office, thinking over the events of the preceding night, when, all of a sudden, he was aroused from his reverie by the sound of a horse’s hoofs, and l...

This was the burden of Arthur Howard’s thoughts, as he wandered restlessly about the grove, with his hands in his pockets, and his eyes fixed on the ground. The bank of the rive...

Having taken time to cool off and recover his breath, George once more lifted his bundle to his shoulder and resumed his journey. He had not more than two miles to go now, and a...

The valley toward which the three boys directed their gaze was quite ten miles long and a little more than half as wide. It was almost oval in shape, and was surrounded on all s...

“No, we don’t,” answered Bob Howard. “They wore masks, as I told you; and, besides, the night was so dark that we could not have recognized our most intimate friends at the dist...

“Look here, young man,” said Arthur, with some dignity in his tones, “you are quite too familiar, if you did but know it. It would be becoming in you to show some respect for yo...

“I think Bob is taking a good deal upon himself when he presumes to say who shall be employed on this ranch, and who shall not,” said Arthur to himself. “He has no right to open...

It is hard to tell which was the more astonished by this unexpected encounter—the father, who having been aroused from uneasy slumber by the stealthy closing of his bedroom door...

“That is as fine a string of fish as I care to take to the village,” observed Dick Langdon, as George rowed away from the bass-hole; “and if you want any more you will have to c...

“I say!” shouted Mr. Stebbins, in a stentorian voice. “Be you gone clean deaf—you two? Come down from there, I tell you, or I’ll send you to kingdom come afore you can bat your...

During the next few days, George was permitted to live in peace, but we cannot say that he enjoyed himself, for at times he felt very lonely, and bitter, too.

Uncle Ruben Edwards was so highly exasperated at his nephew, and so fully determined to punish him for his refusal to live with him as a bound boy, that he had thought of nothin...

“We left him on the beach with the sheriff; but I wouldn’t advise you to go around there,” said Dick, as Wallace handed his bridle to Forbes and moved away. “Mr. Newton desired...

“This is a good place to put on our disguises, fellows,” said one of the intruders, in a low tone. “In ten minutes more we shall be rich men. All we have to do is to act quickly...

Arthur and his father lost no time in removing some of the travel-stains from their hands and faces, and when they had put on plainer suits of clothes and taken off some of the...

George Edwards held his breath in suspense. The hull of the little craft was so long out of sight that he began to fear he would never see it again; but, all of a sudden, it bob...

Arthur Howard suspended for a moment the distasteful work of rolling up the bolts of goods with which his counter was covered, and gazed after a party of ladies who had just gon...

As soon as the train stopped, he and George went into another car, and stayed there. When they reached Leavenworth, Bob telegraphed Mr. Evans, as the latter had instructed him t...

While Uncle Ruben was wandering about from one room to another, taking a mental inventory of the different articles they contained, and trying to figure up how much ready cash t...

“No doubt, I ought to feel very grateful toward Uncle Ruben for the offer he has just made me, but I can’t say that I do,” soliloquized George Edwards, as he trudged along the d...

“By the piper that played before Moses!” exclaimed the telegraph operator at Bolton, when he had received and copied a message that had come over the wires all the way from some...

By hard work and strict attention to their books, they had succeeded in winning an enviable position in their class, and this night was to wind up their connection with the acad...

“And we got all we wanted of both!” chimed in Bob Howard. “Dick lost his canoe, and I lost my gun, but we caught a splendid string of fish, and I had a twenty-minute fight with...

“You might have spared me that, Uncle Ruben. I know he is in prison, and there is no need that you and everybody else should constantly remind me of it. I am in no way to blame...

Bob rowed the boat, George stood in the bow, divested of his clothing and all ready to make the plunge, and Dick sat in the stern and looked at the rocks.

“Didn’t I tell you that there were wild animals in this valley? The presence of those black-tails proves that there must be some way of communication with the outer world, and i...