The Boy Scouts on a Submarine

a large gun going off. It was followed by an instant of deepest silence while Porky crouched in his corner and wondered what next. Like an inspiration the thought came to him as the two m

saw a little boy

rked it roughly. With a start he aw

dermann, as Adolph hauled

rm! I was tired, and went in there, and I must have gon

edermann. "You've guesse

est me for just goin' to sleep in this dinky little dog house. Gee, I might have slept all night! Guess I

st how much asleep you were. You see we don't think you would listen to anything that was not intend

tickle him with my little toy here. Sa

nd you too, young fellow! If you

sted any more than I am. I want to go home! tell you, how could I hear anything when I was asleep? I

Adolph. "Let me go out

I know how to get home. I don't have to have somebody take me." He t

as well tell you how it is." He turned the flashlight on the boy's face and held it there, watching him like a hawk while he talked. "My friend has invented something that will prove to be a very wonderful thing for everybody in the world, an

oment with a deep

ine he has invented,

n. "Such a good guess that I think y

p? What do you suppose I care about your old patent medicine?

right here for a while, why, we will go away, and you will never know to whom you have been talking in this pitch dark. So we will just get you to do t

he took a cord from his pocket, and wound it tightly around the boy's wrists a

rky's mouth. "We will sit outside and watch you a while," said the spy. He laid the boy down on the floor of the house, propped the door in place, and all was silent. In the house, Po

outside but Porky fancied he could hear the breathing of the watchers. It seemed hours and hours before he heard the door move, and knew the flashlight w

he other side of the race-track. It occurred to him that Beany would be waiting for him there. He decided that for a while at least he would not report the affair to Colonel Bright. He wanted to find hi

ng had commenced watching for his brother. Something, he felt sure, had happened in some other part of the grounds. He was strangely uneasy. A great desi

It was the Colonel's car, and Colonel Bright himself leane

now which one you are but I want to talk to yo

r mind which one, I'll bet you both think alike. Now I

was

ning," he said, urg

rmy, then leaned close to the Colonel, and told him of the two men at the ice-cream stand, and then, going back, he told of their recognition of t

ur brother n

Beany. "At the green

upp

me, or back to

wait for each othe

ou back to the Camp. If you find your brother, telephone me. I don't need to tell you to keep silent. Don't forget what a big thing you're doing,

ckly. "I keep a-thinkin' a

to earn. The chance to have four years, in fact, to have six years good hard study in

ig office building, Beany stood on the curb and looked around him. Beany was tired and dirty and pale through the grime. He had had no supper. He was low, very low

and turned just in time to face a couple of men who were hurrying across the si

g in such a terrible convulsion that Beany bolted into the Colonel's car, frightened out of his wits. A crowd gathered, and at once ambulance was summoned, and policemen

away with its gong ringing nois

for him all r

I do?" dem

u a look, and threw a fit. Both of 'em. I saw their eyes stick out a yard. They acted like you was a ghost. You do look pretty

ave him a glare, and he repeated the incident as they drove toward the Colonel's house. The C

Colonel and slipped back in

ve him?' Looks queer to me. Looks like he thought you were the ghost of somebody they had just kil

twin?" he as

ful thoughts and possibilities sur

k the Sergeant a sh

ve at their car and disappear under it, as the Sergeant, eager as, claimed th

o?" cried the Ser

rst," said Beany, le

is engine. "I'll go wi

tried all the seats around the bandstand and the settees on the great

ggestion of the Sergeant, they went to the Hospital but no boy had been brought in. Once more t

th fear; fear for the

rill, clear whistle. Three times he repeated th

lose. Once more Beany gave the signal, this time with a leaping heart,

the sound. As he passed the

said. "Got

, Beany and the Sergean

I wish you could see this knot! I have worked about

pped out a knife

you up?"

amping the feeling into his feet and

ere did for him in the neatest way you ever saw." He repeated the meeting on Salina

ied, too, because he went limp all at once. He acted like he'd seen a ghost. He yelled, 'What did yo

ent sharply int

aid he, obeying the