The Racer boys on the prairies

It was early in the year, and the weather, which had been wet and rather cold, was now turning into balmy spring, with the feeling of baseball in the air. The Easter vacation wa...

"Oh, I don't know as I have any particular object, except that I always like to solve a mystery--if I can. And again, I don't like to see any Riverview Hall lad act as this fell...

"That's right, so it is," agreed Ward, looking over the top of a packing case, and seeing the gardener putting away some of the implements he had used that day. "He's all right."

These questions, comments, surmises and exclamations of admiration followed swiftly, one on the heels of the other, as Frank and Andy Racer, and several of their chums, gathered...

There was a dispute, but it ended in favor of Frank, the majority deciding that, under the circumstances, it was permissible. As the game went on Frank looked across the campus....

"Lift him up," advised Andy, as he once more struck a match. "We've got to carry him to some place. A thief must have held him up, and, when he resisted, struck him. Say, this i...

The boys stiffened into attention, listening intently for the faintest sound. At first they could hear nothing more than the whisper of the wind in the trees, and then, so faint...

"Most of our crowd have gone over to the golf game at Fuller Academy," said Andy, for that amusement had suddenly come into vogue at one of the institutions of learning near Riv...

"Is he dead, Frank? Is he breathing? Did we get him out in time?" cried Andy, highly excited, as he dropped the oars and began to make his way forward to where his brother was h...

"Well, boys, I'm afraid, after all, that it may be only a joke. But for all that there is a place out near my uncle's ranch on the Kansas prairies that is known as 'Golden Peak....

These were the comments and exclamations of Frank and Andy Racer, and their new chum Billy Chase, as they sat in a parlor car of a fast train, speeding westward. They were on th...

Instantly the car was in confusion. Men and women, struggling to their feet from where they had been thrown by the impact of the blow, began rushing about hardly knowing what th...

But there was no need, even had there been time to do so--to race against the awful speed and power of steam--for the one explosion was followed by no others.

Getting the injured aboard the relief train was the first care of everyone, including the wrecking crew, that had come in response to the telegraphed appeal for aid. Tenderly th...

"I'm afraid you can't get it," replied the agent. "In the first place, I only happened to hear the message as it went over my wires, and, though I caught it all, for I was not b...

"Say, if this is _some_ place, where's _no_ place?" asked Andy, for as he looked out of the car windows he saw nothing save the same prairies over which they had traveled for ma...

"I don't know," replied Billy frankly. "Certainly it can't be Shackmiller, for he's in the hospital. But that's the same wagon we saw a while ago, and we thought it had turned b...

"Now, Billy," said his aunt, "you make the boys feel at home. Show them to their rooms--you know, the two near yours--and I'll see what I can do for Sing Lee. I told him to make...

Archie Lynch was leading out two fairly good-looking steeds, which did not seem to have much speed, but for which the Racer boys were duly grateful, for fast riding was not one...

"Yes, but you're not on your uncle's land now!" fired back the man. "This strip is owned by me and my friends, and it will be many a day before Mr. Richfield Thornton gets contr...

Frank and Andy Racer did not need a second warning to urge their steeds to top speed. One look at the black and menacing cloud, now they knew what it portended, was enough for t...

"Impossible!" cried Mr. Thornton, as he reached the group of lads standing near the wounded man. "How could he be here when you said he was hurt in the railroad accident and was...

Instantly all was excitement at Double X ranch. The word quickly went round of what had happened, and a number of cowboys, and men that worked on the farm part of the land, gath...

It was Mr. Thornton who spoke first, and Billy who questioned him. They had been on the trail since early morning, seeking to find the man who had disappeared from their ranch a...

These were only a few of the questions, demands, exclamations and wonderings that came from the three lads, Frank, Andy and Billy, as they prepared to set off to explore Golden...

Billy sprang to where he had leaned his weapon against a tree, and his example was followed by Frank. Then, fully armed, they looked to where Andy was gazing at a spot in the un...

With a rush and a roar the storm descended, increasing in intensity each minute. Well it was for the Racer boys and their chum that they had reached the cave in time, for they w...

"Well, how much do you think we've got?" asked Andy Racer, as he sat down on a pile of dirt, and looked at a mass of dull, gleaming yellow near the side of the cavern.

Billy's announcement seemed to strike a chill of terror to the hearts of his chums. They stood there, at the mouth of the treasure cave, and looked at the water below them--a va...

He and his brother had gone from the treasure cave to the edge of the fast-forming lake to note the rise of the water, and having ascertained that the rate was quite rapid they...