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The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition

Mr. Hampton advanced from the doorway into the sitting room, and looked at the faces of the three boys in turn. They were his son, Jack, and the latter's chums, Bob Temple and Frank Merrick, who together had gone through many adventures related in other books of "The Radio Boy...

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27. CHAPTER XXVII--CONCLUSION.

Far to the southward, late in the Summer, the party containing our friends and the Thorwaldsson party as well as Long Jim Golden, all bronzed and hardy, and with Thorwaldsson re...

7. CHAPTER VII.--A MAN OF THE "MOUNTED.

While Mr. Hampton and Farnum turned in to take inventory to discover what, if anything, had been stolen, the boys went back to take down and pack their radio outfit. As it lay i...

5. CHAPTER V.--A SURPRISE THROUGH THE AIR

Joyously though time flew by for the boys, with Mr. Hampton and Tom Farnum it was a different matter. They were worried, that became increasingly plain. Finally, although Mr. Ha...

16. CHAPTER XVI.--REINDEER SIGHTED.

The big canoe which Dick and Art had captured from the Indians was turned over to MacDonald. It was easily capable of transporting five--the three prisoners, MacDonald and Dick....

2. CHAPTER II.--SETTING OUT FROM NOME.

It was Frank who asked the question, and he sat on a heap of luggage on the beach at Nome, with Jack and Bob beside him looking alternately at the mountain beyond the Alaskan ou...

17. CHAPTER XVII.--SURPRISED.

Frank, in the opposite direction, fired several shots into the long grass. He had an uncanny feeling, for he could see no forms at which to fire, and the preliminary volley pour...

8. CHAPTER VIII.--FIRST BLOOD.

So tired were all members of the party after their unexpected exertions of moving camp and trekking on, coming at the end of a day filled with fatiguing labor, that now a haven...

12. CHAPTER XII.--THE SURPRISE ATTACK.

Shirt flapping out over his trousers, shoes unlaced, Frank frantically buckled on his revolver and cartridge belt, seized his rifle and started on a dead run through the trees....

15. CHAPTER XV.--MACDONALD TURNS BACK.

Taking everything into consideration, Mr. Hampton decided that before any further steps were taken, the wisest plan would be for all to get a good rest. Frank still lay as if in...

4. CHAPTER IV.--STRIKING GOLD.

Life flowed along very pleasantly indeed, for the boys, during the weeks that followed. They were so far north that the sun shone constantly, and never a cloud came to trouble t...

11. CHAPTER XI.--BOB FALLS ASLEEP.

In no time at all, Mr. Hampton and his party were ready to set out. Of one thing they were reminded by Jack, the individual radio sets constructed along his own lines, the instr...

21. CHAPTER XXI.--A WAILING CRY.

"Jack, Jack," he shouted, as he ran through the fog, blindly, but remembering to veer away from the river bank a little to avoid the danger of tumbling in. "Jack, Jack, where ar...

14. CHAPTER XIV.--A REVELATION.

This time Bob did not go to sleep on the job, but at the first faint indication that somnolence was stealing upon him, arose and stamped about vigorously. Once, prompted by a hu...

26. CHAPTER XXVI.--TREED BY WOLVES.

One more adventure, and that a serious one, was to befall the boys as a final taste of life in the wilderness. One day towards the end of Winter, when the sky cleared after seve...

3. CHAPTER III.--IN THE WILDERNESS.

It was Tom Farnum who made the announcement over dinner which was eaten on deck. The boat was anchored offshore, far up the Hare Indian River, one of the great tributaries of th...

1. CHAPTER I.--THE LOST EXPEDITION.

Mr. Hampton advanced from the doorway into the sitting room, and looked at the faces of the three boys in turn. They were his son, Jack, and the latter's chums, Bob Temple and F...

25. CHAPTER XXV.--VOICES FROM THE WILDERNESS.

But Long Jim had not falsified. The valley proved, indeed, to be more even than he described, for as the world now knows important mineral deposits were discovered, including go...

13. CHAPTER XIII.--MR. HAMPTON RECALLED.

"Well, come on. I know how you feel, but I expect that's the first thing to be attended to. If any of them is no more than wounded, it will be up to us to do what we can for him."

22. CHAPTER XXII.--OUTWARD BOUND.

It was a week before the wounded could be moved. At close range though the fight had been, none had been killed. When the boys exclaimed in amazement at this, Art shrugged his s...

18. CHAPTER XVIII.--THE STAMPEDE.

For the first time since starting on his wild project, a doubt as to its success entered Frank's mind. But he put it resolutely aside as he sped forward, crouching, sliding unde...

10. CHAPTER X.--THE BOYS LEFT BEHIND.

They were all sitting in conference, so to speak, about the camp fire, over which Dick was busy broiling fish which he and Art and the boys had just pulled out of the lake. The...

6. CHAPTER VI.--INDIANS!

"The only Indians in this country hate the white man," he said. "They have had some cause, goodness knows. But the point is, they hate us." Turning abruptly to Frank, he said:

24. CHAPTER XXIV.--A TALE OF PARADISE.

"I ain't no hand for talkin'," Long Jim declared in answer to Art's requests for further information. "I got to tell this. But onct oughter be enough. No use my tellin' you an'...

20. CHAPTER XX.--IN THE FOG.

Another period of uneventful canoe travel followed, corresponding in time to the passage of a day, although there was nothing to mark the lapse except the slightly-deepened twil...

23. CHAPTER XXIII.--LONG JIM APPEARS.

Winter, after all, caught them in its icy grip far north of where they had planned to be when the cold should really set in. This was due to a variety of circumstances. The slow...

9. CHAPTER IX.--A CALL TO THE FORT.

Mr. Hampton, Bob and Frank nodded sympathetically. An enthusiast on radio, Jack had developed a number of new appliances. The latest of these was not yet completed. He had worke...

19. CHAPTER XIX.--LUPO'S END.

When next Frank opened his eyes, he lay on a blanket in camp and the sight of Bob and Jack bending anxiously above him while Mr. Hampton and Farnum worked at his shoulder greete...