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The Boy Scouts on a Submarine

Chapter 2 OFF TO SEE THE COLONEL

Word Count: 1604    |    Released on: 29/11/2017

y awaiting the outcome of Lester's injury, while day after day he lay tossing on

doubts were creeping into Wugs' mind. He himself had interviewed the prisoner, not telling him who he

when he told the police that, and heard their shouts of laughter,

brother's great invention, its try-out on the herd of cows, his home-coming, and the terrible ending to his triumphant day. Then in a still lower tone, as though he fe

but I'll never believe it until I find that paper. You see, he didn't have a chance to mail it

what-you-call-it!" th

uppose anybody can tell what you say when you both talk

ould! He could just live in the water. Well, we took off our cloze by-en-by, and went in, and pretty soon he come out. He never noticed us any more'n if we wasn't there; only he come out a good ways from us and walked back where was his things, without lookin' our way. But we seen hi

elope, and the other was a card written all up, something about admit bearer to all parts of fairgrounds. I suppose he is going to show something

at himself, or so it seemed to the boys watching. "We ain't come to that.

in my pocket,"

fore you get to your first driveway, Wugs, my handle bars come loose, and we had to get off and fix

over to the swimmin' hole but if that feller was bad, this one was worse.

y says, 'Well, I bet he

d us to write it all to Uncle Jake. And the lamp made Beany's head hot, and he took the funny thin paper we found over to the swimmin' hole and made a sort of shade of it. And when we had our l

o with it then?

and she took it and p

gro

those coats and every one's wors

oing over to patrol the fairgroun

ky," said B

rst thing to d

had better go over to the Troop D Farm where the Mounted Po

him?" asked a bo

enough of this so he

e like. So the first

there, and find out

one

had his part of the interview with Colonel Handler nicely and neatly rehearsed. He had worked so ha

one along with him; and when he saw ahead of him the two violently red wheel

goin'!" h

rm," said Porky, hoppin

? This is

you forgot of the things you wanted to say, and we knew we always remember

reached the Farm, they found that the Colonel, who stayed at Syracuse with his family, had not yet a

on the stone wall at the side o

m goin' to be"'

onder how long it will t

"I outgrew two pair

sa as a big car was driven u

ing first. You see, he has charge of all the country patrols, and 'co

where the boys sat on the stone wall. On the little rise where stood the low, rambling farmhouse, the Colonel, with

the Potter twins, and from Beany's good left hand a cobble whizzed through the air, and struck the assassin's shoulder. It destroyed his aim. The bullet went wild, and before he could rec

n hurried to the telephone. Horsemen dashed madly up the road. A slim, capable-looking racer slid from the garage, and the Colonel and a couple

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