Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six

a product of his imagination? If you leave it to him, the tw

he'll tell!" whispered Tommy. "A person that couldn't get n

ere seen leaving a box car at a little station in Ohio. I don't just recall the name of the station now, but I can find it by looking on the map! It

declared Will. "We should have bee

inking it best to show great interest

the Lake Erie & Wester

ake him a long time to decide upon a place, but he finally spread the map out against th

he name of the place. They were put out of the car at Nankin, and a

seen leaving the car a

hey were put o

, and that covers both statements," re

the boys were to take came rolling into the station. "The pointer is un

ed down and whistled his note of warning. It was quite dark, although stars were showing in a sky plentifully scattered over with clouds and, as the bo

he four standing on the roadbed looking di

d long hike!"

r own good!"

something is for my ow

ook it!" chu

! It makes me think of a story I read once where the man complained that everyt

d here and moralize till the cows come home, and it wo

closed! We can all make for the mine by different routes. Ventner thinks we are out of town now, and the chances are that he'll be plugging around trying t

rying to assist us, the mine wouldn't have been flooded, the pumps wouldn't have bro

tood talking with us at the station?" asked

hich looked as if it had been made by the scraping of a saw! I guess if you'll inspect the shreds we fo

dy observed. "Looked like he had bounced the

nd at home when he went out to cut into that ladder! If he does all his work the way he did

f from the right of way and Sandy and Tommy keeping on for half a dozen rods. When the four boys were finall

ion, "keep your eye out for Ventner and this third boy. T

to the weigh-house and so on into the breaker. As they came to a line of empty cars sta

one in there!"

d bum, p

mped his shins on a pile of ties an

y we're looking f

shin vigorously, muttering and protesting, against railroa

ment above and then it seemed to him that something of considerable weight was being dragged across the floor. This was follo

ght sight of him. He saw this figure bounce out of the car and start, away. Th

roadbed for a moment without speaking. In the meantime, Tommy had crawled out from u

second body came boun

e second person stopped where Sandy stood besi

!" he said in

it?" ask

ow!" was

he doing

trying t

e in empties!" laughed Sandy. "I shouldn't think their bank

If I wasn't opposed to cruelty to animals, I'd give this fellow a beating up r

r!" Tommy said, coming up to where the tw

eplied. "I saw him sneaking arou

eeping in an emp

of fresh air!" replied

away, limping over the ties as if tickled to dea

my turned to the boy who had dropped

s nowhere

e and done it!

rom us! And we couldn't have done a worse thing!" he went on, "becau

themselves the sharp call o