Title:  The Boy Scouts Patrol

Author:  Ralph Victor

Release Date:  May, 2004 [EBook #5602] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on July 19, 2002]

Edition:  10

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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THE BOY SCOUTS PATROL

BY RALPH VICTOR

ILLUSTRATED BY

RUDOLF MENCL

CHAPTER

I. A MONKEY TRICK

II.  FINDING MONEY

III.  TWO AND TWO

IV.  UP THE RIVER

V. OUT OF THE RIVER

VI.  THE ENEMY MAKES A RAID

VII.  THE COLONEL

VIII.  TALKING IT OVER

IX.  THE PURSUIT

X. LOOKING FOR A CLUE

XI.  FORMING THE PATROL

XII.  ORGANIZED

XIII.  A CHALLENGE

XIV.  A DEFIANCE

XV.  PEPPER TAKES A MESSAGE

XVI.  Where was Pepper?

XVII.  THE MESSAGE

XVIII.  IN THE JUDGE’S OFFICE

XIX.  A NARROW ESCAPE

XX.  A NIGHT ALARM

XXI.  A SURPRISE

XXII.  THE RACE

XXIII.  CONCLUSION

THE BOY SCOUTS PATROL

CHAPTER I

A MONKEY TRICK

“I think—­” began a tall, slenderly-built lad of sixteen, speaking in a somewhat indolent way; then suddenly he paused to look down through the trees to where the river gleamed below.

“What’s on your mind now, Rand?” his companion queried, a boy of about the same age, nearly as tall, but more stoutly built, and as light in complexion as the other was dark.  The two were standing at the top of the road that wound down the side of the mountain from the town of Creston, which was perched, like the nest of some great bird, in a hollow of the Palisades.

“I think—­” repeated the first speaker, pausing again.