Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad

n camp since you fellows all

seemed to immediately jump to the conclusion t

an't be in two places at the same time. I was needed out with the tenderfoot squad; and seems like

der grinned as

"Don't rush as if you knew it all. Nobody said the visitor was goi

Elmer, quickly, as though he had h

, nodding his head in the affirm

want?" demand

that we invited Jem to drop in on us any time he was near our camp. The invitation didn't seem to give him muc

w him before," the other explained. "And he c

operty up here. Perhaps Jem believes he may be dispossessed of his cabin. I've heard that squatters al

s eye fixed on Rufus, "to tell the honest truth, h

t's just about in line with what I was telling

acted after I'd told him about y

e to say about my dad?"

George explained. "Then he asked me if I knew what your father's first name was. I told him I had heard it

little cry at

business deal together; though that's hardly likely, because Jem Shock, poach

on his mentioning it, that Hiram was your father's name, he gritted those big white teeth o

why he had come to the camp?" asked Lil

that Snodgrass boy to say to his father that Jem Shock never will forgive the rank treachery that handed him over to a gang of sharpers in the land speculating business. And tell Hiram Snodgrass, too,' he went on, 'that he ought to thank

n the color surged back to his cheeks

ted in his word. There must be some terrible mistake about it, don't you see, fellows? I'll bring you face to face with my dad when I'm telling him about this, and you'll hear for yourselve

have a peculiar code of morals, and frequently do things that others may not exactly approve of, salving their own consciences in some way. Elmer was a little afraid that Hiram Snodg

Artha, out of pity for Rufus, who appeared

poacher that he may be, because he believes like a good many persons that wild game isn't the property of the State, there's something about Jem

it was a mistake, it shall be righted. I tell you my father is too big a man to play mean toward anybody. But while we're u

tes the sound of your name, and if you gave him half an excuse, why he might forget his good resolutions,

oes find that a terrible mistake has been made, it would be easy to come back up here and square things up with the poacher. But it certainly pleases me to kno

ntance of Conrad's mother, the daughter of that once famous Swedish violinist who

the mind of Rufus long afterwards. Indeed, the boy seemed to be unusually quiet during the balance of

upon his nervous system for some little time; and possibly he might even awaken from sleep occasionally with a half-suppressed cry of horror, as though in his dreams he again saw that

ld be easily seen that he had a great affection for his father, even though it was his fond mo

at Elmer told himself, as he noticed the soberness of Rufus, while the others in th

the visit paid to the camp by Jem Shock. If anything, his resolution w

ng their heads fall on their crude pillows. These were made out of a slip filled with sweet hemlock browse stripped by hand fresh from the tree, and fragrant as could be, with the in

they got to sleep, knew next to nothing up to the time Lil Artha aroused

a pleasant day ahead. Elmer, however, warned the new recruits not to be too optimistic, becau

ha on this day, and accompany the two surveyors as a guard. T

to tell him, "but, as we saw yesterday, there may crop up conditions that make the having of a s

left behind. He kept his own counsel, however, and Elmer, knowing tha

his dreamy airs, all of them creations of his own brain, Elmer started forth. Lil Artha of course could easily surmise from the direction h

eresting things that cropped up on this side or that, for his thoughts were mostly c