The Boy Scouts on a Submarine

ding their chins in their right hands, left hands twisting their puttee lacers. They talked oc

ran lightly down and drove off toward the clubhouse. The Colonel stood looking after hi

ever have a h

" they sai

a hunch spoil what seems to be a very good

oked qui

me hunch, Col

n," adde

his?" demande

steps, and Captain DuChassis stepped out and handed down a lovely girl. She was in a riding habit, and she ran lightly up

ndent in riding clothes and returned her smile tenderly. They st

hat will absolutely whip Germany, and he was attacked the very night that the gas was tried out, and frightfully hurt, and the formula taken away from him. Of course, it wouldn't matter if he could t

s. He smiled and tapped his swagger stick light

luck! s

has just offered a splendid prize to any Boy Scout who finds the formula. He offers

ptain. "Is he pro-German? It looks it, setting such a task for childre

o the boys. They were gone. Sadly they had faded away around the corner, and d

our men. We will find that formula when we pull in the bunch that tried to shoot Colonel Handler. They are all mixed up somehow, you'll find. All right, we find that formula, because we got to do it for

going to pick our co

id Porky, loftily. "Cause there

e we tell, the more it gums the works. It sounds cheeky, but we work better alone: me an

," said

e loudest and, wriggling through the press, approached an ice cream stand. T

no attenti

the Wolf?"

's daughter," the other

have news," said the shorter man. "Meet me in th

moved away. Porky looked cautiously after them. For a second, he thought of telling his brother to follow them, but remembered in t

ound the drive leading to the beautiful new horse stables and, cutting across the race-track, threw himself d

y flat in the grass and tipped

it off your ches

hey call the guy tha

ig

-Captain,"

aid Porky. Even alone as th

enly erect. "W

her. He rapidly repeated the

flower-house

"I think I have seen the shorter one o

is. So you go camp at the flower-house by-en-by, and I will keep w

aid his brother. "You didn'

ut they will be right where they said, over by the flower-house. See, they don't use any science. All they do is get in a crowd, or

ege education," B

thing. Come on back, I want a sandwich. I have lived on hot dogs now

something covered with a tarpaulin. The boys darted into the crowd. Th

," he said. "Saw it 'm

asped. "Was she k

, he chased her an' his horse caught up, and the feller grabbed her bridle, and her horse 'swerved, an

. "Where did they take th

always say the same thing like that? You ain't the

h?" said

and I'll bet he's lame to-morrow but

te young horse was loaded on the tru

" said Beany,

of scarlet fever. They would jug us in the deten

fever too," sa

in' a boy's

said Beany. "I go

e heard their tale of woo sympathetically, and the boys

ur day," she said; and quickly stirred something in a glass t

fterwards, when a group of people came out of the inner o

ly narrow escape for both of them. Do all you can for Captain DuChassis. I'm sorry you won

he is for a few hours anyhow. Now there wont be any

' to thin out. What

ter be on our way.

ight. Colonel Handler, told us we could,

hed the tired sightseers drag out. By six they were all gone, and Porky felt that he could go back and sit down awhile. It occurred to hi

en, and the little windows were glass. Porky had always thought that the inside must be of solid earth; but when he walked close, and stooped to look in he was surprised to find it a real little wooden house with wooden wall and floor, and over that a steel lattice work where the plants were rooted in moss and earth. He pushed against t

ong the smooth drives. Far away on the hill the bugles sounded taps. Some one leaned against the little house, and Porky woke with a s

ne chu

p, coarse voice. "This

this ornament?"

w, my Adolph, all show-like the Countess that our friend the Wolf loves so

andaged neck, or this sore head of mine." He laughed a laugh that chilled Porky. "Watch, Ledermann, wat

"Let that all go for now. What

dolph. "That's what always worries me most.

e to-day, and is in the Hospital. I think he is honestly hurt, because he cannot use his f

" said Adolph. "And we meet him th

d Lederman

there was silence. Adolph's great shoulder pressed against th

don't want to break this pretty toy. C

ible that they will sleep restless from now on. I have planted dread and sorrow on many a heart. I have some plans I foun

r of instructions you lost," said Ledermann. "

and I found a wonderful secluded place, and went swimming. Ah, Ledermann, how I love the water! I must have lost that paper out of my pocket. I know I did. I went back but there was no paper there, but

e Wolf told me to giv

whenever you can.

something

l thing!"

d Lederman

with all his ears. And then a terr