The Boy Scouts on a Submarine

d brown stone house stood looking the picture of desolation, with its closely boarded-up windows, its dusty steps and seedy doors, the boys pa

olden days, they met under the iron fire-escape attached to the house next door. This building, much higher than the corner house, was used as a private sanitarium or hospital by one o

lower building met the taller one, they found they could not get from the stairway to the other roof. There was nothing for it but to go on up the remaining story, cross the roof of the building and drop down to

hey hurried to it and Hen, with a quick twist, worked

ur shoes!" h

ed from the skylight to the attic, and stood mot

t seemed years) Hen decided that they must have light, even at the risk of discovery, and his flashlight illumined the room in which they stood. Immediately Porky pointed to the big chimney, and the pile

ull of agony, sounded close to them. The boys recognized that thin, boyish tone,

peered through the tiny hole. They shuddered as they did so. Then Hen, with all the caution he could summon, pushed open the door, and stepped out, covering the Wolf with a wicked-looking muzzle. The bound and gagged boy in the chair saw the strange group which had so suddenly and so mysteriously appeare

hed his victim's eyes

e watched his victim's eyes and in them, suddenly, he saw a strange f

straightened up, and lazily turned. What lie saw

ld the revolver pointed stra

d feet, the crouching Wolf with his low, fiendish laugh-it was all like a frightful electric shock to Porky, and in that horrible instant he came into his manho

!" said P

m, then his hands were raised. He backed toward the

t table," said Hen.

. Like a flash his hands came down, he seized the boy and clut

e had almost reached it when a deafening noise sounded from below. There was the sound of a door being battered in, shots were fired, and shouts heard. For a second the Wolf faltered. For a second he was off his guard. In that second, Beany made a light, steel-mu

and. Porky felt a sting as the bullet grazed h

ank look spread over his face, and he sank to his knees.

en ran in, three of them following Ledermann, at Porky's direction, while the others snapped the cuffs on the two men at the table, and tenderly took the cruel gag from Asa's parched and bleeding mouth, and untied h

other revolver. He found instead a long, keen knife which he threw aside. Then, with Porky, he fell to watching the close

suddenly. His voice

to croak yet. I got t

at he had bit. Unde

d with a look o

eeding fearfully, sl

," said Hen so

t the heart of

id. "Send an ambula

rs, while those who remained commence

ake off his shoe; the other one," and someone did so. "Get that

ambulance. A couple of doctors came up, three steps at a time, and examined the Wolf. A bandage soon stopped the flow of blood, and, still unconscious, he was carried down the stairs. A detective picked Asa up and

the ambulance with the Wolf! He'll come to yet and kill somebody

ambulance. I will carry you down to the police car, a

a procession of them when they finally started, after leaving a heavy guard in the house, and ve

r. and Mrs. Potter all rose to their feet, when Timmins walked in. Mr. Leffingwell would have another doctor; and while they waited five minutes for him (he was right in the building) Asa, suffering pretty badly, but not giving a

their dad, and were pounded on the back by Mr. Leffingwell, who seemed to have a bad cold. When the doctor came, he ordered Asa straight to be