The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition

with Hiram?" asked Rob, upon hearing

ickly slipping out and allowing Hiram to take his place, while he leaned

as this same man,

ined the nervous inventor, "but I'm most certain it was that agent.

t then the boy seemed to be more concerned about these than he was in connection with the pocke

the chances are he's only trying in his mean way to give you a bad feeling. I d

o steal my papers from

, with one of us on either side,"

hand him over to the police if he tri

et in the jam at leaving the train," Hiram told them, showing that his min

we draw into the station we'll sit tight until most of the passengers have left. Then Andy here can go and get the particulars as to where our t

unceasing vigilance,' as Judge Collins said, because it is of priceless value in the eyes of scien

he needed information. They had a whole hour before the scheduled time

o the right and to the left. He seemed to be in constant f

ape, Rob!" he suddenly muttered, and hi

s he discovered a slim man standing at some little distan

he'd stop at nothing in order to get t

hat he's had his nasty revenge on you for treating him so shabbily. To be beaten in a battle of wits by a mere boy must have

s you thin

mp," replied the scout leader. "Now, if he really meant to chase after you on the trip, don't you s

been shown, began to

ob," he admitted. "So let him grin all he wants to. I'll laugh, too

ome imaginary joke. He also turned and looked straight in the eyes of the man he had called Mar

ted Rob, a minute later. "See, there he goes over yonder, and I

be creeping around all the time. I'm playing up to the old saying

he saw Andy hurrying toward them, and from his manner gu

n who came aboard as though he more than half suspected the revengeful Marsters, baffled in securing the wonderful inventio

ic motor, and heading through the tunnel that would take them under the North

journey calculated to land them eventually inside the portals of the big Exposition on t

happy auspices. With all their expenses paid, and the grandest possible time looming up ahead of them, it was no

e to Mexico when with Merritt Crawford and Tubby Hopkins. On that occasion they had undertaken the carrying out of that mission connected with the disposal of the cattle on the ranch Dr. Ma

d never been a hundred miles outside of Hampton in all his life; and therefore he stared and commented continually as

ontents of Rob's grip, they kept it down at their feet constantly; for they had the whole section, Andy

him, as they prepared to go into the dining-car for their supper, two at a time, and

the other, "but seemed like several parties looked right

om you being worked up the way you are. Chances are they must a' seen the budding genius breakin

you timid. It's poor policy to shut the door of the stable after the hoss is stolen, my dad says; and your folks would agree w

feels too hungry to stay here for us to come back, let him

that it pleased him to

lows counting the minutes while I'm gone, it hurries me too much; and that's bad for your digestion, you know. So skip along, and I'll hug the

full moon lighted up the wonderful scenery of the valleys they were speeding through,

ising firm that had invited him all the way out to the Coast, was full of questions regarding the wonderful things h

steady chum as Rob Blake did much to add to Hiram's peace of mind, it can be readily believed; for he felt sure that no mat

other accomplish; and, besides, the things he had heard concerning that Mexican tri

t they boomed

rienced travelers, Hiram hardly slept a wink that first night; much of the time he had the window-shade drawn back, and lay there staring at the ghostly objects tha

w by leaps and bounds. What was more, since he could still feel that precious packet inside his coat, where he had at Rob's soli