The Radio Boys with the Forest Rangers; Or, The great fire on Spruce Mountain

The next morning Bob was on his way to school when on passing the Sterling House, the most prominent hotel in town, he caught sight of the figure of a girl on the porch that loo...

With his heart beating like a triphammer and his lungs strained almost to bursting, Bob ran on as he had never run before. And yet it seemed to him as though he were terribly sl...

“Say, fellows!” exclaimed Bob Layton, as he bounded down the school steps, three steps at a time, his books slung by a strap over his shoulder, “what do you think——”

Jimmy’s warning came not a moment too soon, for the words were hardly out of his mouth before two of the bears came splashing toward the raft. Buck Looker gave a yell of terror...

For a moment the Radio Boys stared in the direction of Bob’s pointing finger. They could see nothing out of the ordinary. Yet, even while they told themselves this, the acrid sm...

The effect of this closing sentence on the Radio Boys was electric. They had been engrossed in the subject of the talk, and the personal twist that came at the end took them utt...

They were starting back along the familiar path to the lodge when they were surprised by the sound of angry voices coming from the direction of the road just beyond.

“Well, I don’t suppose it could be called exactly comfortable to have your hands blistered and your hair singed and not know whether the next minute you’re going to be alive or...

“But say, I call this pretty tough,” broke in the irrepressible Herb. “Here we fellows came away up to Spruce Mountain in the hope of finding a little excitement, and you say th...

“It seems to me I have,” said Bob, somewhat doubtfully. “Doesn’t Dr. Dale own some timberland up in that part of the country? Seems to me I’ve heard him say something about it.”

A few minutes before this, after a long uphill climb, the car had entered a narrow ravine between two hills, the sides of which were studded with great bowlders. One of these ha...

Jimmy made a wild dive for it, which gave Herb a chance to pull the last one from his pocket, a chance of which he availed himself with neatness and dispatch.

The Radio Boys found it harder now to fight against the onrushing flames. They had entered the battle full of fresh strength and energy, but now that had been in a large measure...

Everywhere men were working, driving themselves and others mercilessly. A hundred yards back of the fire some were digging a ditch while others hacked madly with hatchets at out...

Then they pulled their caps still closer over their eyes, circled around the tree and found the path again. They knew just how close they had been to death, and yet their though...

“Say, have you fellows heard about that new vacuum tube?” asked Joe, as the boys were tinkering with their set a day or so after the incident of the wildcat.

“I’ll say this is the life,” said Herb, as he rambled happily about the lodge which Dr. Dale had turned over to the Radio Boys for a temporary camping place. “Say, fellows, did...

The fire still burned with unabated fury along the shores, and so great was the heat that the lake was actually getting warmer. It was a large body of water, fed by ice-cold spr...

The wind seemed to abandon the upper stretches of the air and swooped down on the lake. Soon it had become a howling gale that churned the waters into foam and tossed their frai...

Startled by the tone of Bob’s voice, the boys turned quickly, and Jimmy, disregarding his admonition not to move, screwed around till he could follow Bob’s gaze. Then an answeri...

All the time that the Radio Boys had been working to construct the raft, Buck Looker had remained just where they had left him, never even offering to help. But now, when he saw...

At first the full measure of the calamity did not come home to the boys. It was irritating, of course, to find themselves in the dark with no possible way of making a light. The...

The room into which the boys had leaped was a small laboratory fitted up in the rear of the store. As Bob’s eyes ranged about, they fell on two bodies lying at the side of the t...

“Don’t think his beauty was improved any by the handling he got yesterday,” laughed Jimmy. “Of course he might use the old gag that he had run against a door in the dark, but I’...

Through the blazing forest the wind tore its way, gathering up as it went the blazing crowns of trees and throwing them, like a baleful giant at sport, high up in the air, where...

Promptly at eight o’clock on the following night the Radio Boys gathered at Bob’s house to listen to Mr. Bentley’s talk over the radio on radio and forest fires. Even Jimmy, who...