The Boy Scout Automobilists; Or, Jack Danby in the Woods

s week, had decided not to send Jack Danby on his trip into the enemy's country alone. Seat

oon-but we don't want to be late, either. This job is too important to run any risks of bungling it. I'd h

ed Tom. "I should think it would be pretty

one from which Captain Durland had given him his course, which wa

s side of the line. They may be watching the road there, so what we want to do is to get where we can't be seen, and then, about a minute before noon, go ahead as fast as the car will carry us. That ought to take us through all right, even if they

lie to us, wo

rect information from the people along the roads. On the contrary, they'd do their best to delay the enemy, and make all the trouble they could, and they'd be patriotic. So we've got to be mighty careful this

as he knew, capable of going three or four times as fast as he was driving it. But there is always a certain

, Jack?" asked Tom, as they bowled along easi

anyhow. I'll go fast enough then for a spell, if you're anxious for speed

f fulfilling the prophecy in his own hands. At Mardean, just out of

Tom Binns, breathless wit

ly. "Hold tight now, Tom! I'm

t sputtering behind them, the car shot over the line, and, just as a whistle boomed

shouting. The car was built so

d back. "They're kicking up a tremendous fuss, Jack

over on us. Let me know as soon as that outpost is well out of sight, Tom. And keep your eyes

there's nothing on the road. H

considerably as he did so, but not so much that the car did not rattle around considerably

on another road where they won't be looking for us. Otherwise I'm afraid we wouldn't get very far before we ran into a trap that all

aration of the wild, bumping ride over the furrows of the field. "It

oming to another road, now. This is a pretty big field, and it was marked accurately

ings like that, it must

nd navy that no one will want to fight you. But it pays to be ready for war, no matter how much it costs, for the country that isn't ready is alw

car took the road again, and Jack

d have bumped itself to pieces a mile or so back, and this one is running just as

scared at first. But I soon decided that we were all right. But I don't believe, even if I k

e scared than I was when we left the road-but I knew, you see, that there simply wasn't any ot

t's

Smithville, back along the railroad about twenty miles, and if they've sent any force to

you mea

in this game we build a fire with spare ties, and mark as much rail as we'd have time to tear up, allowing ten minutes for each length of rail. Then if a troop t

when they reached a spot about three mile

neral Bean a chance to occupy Hardport and destroy the railroad bridge. That will take a day to reb

s occupied by a Blue regiment, which had outposts well scattered around the place, a

y're planning is to let General Bean advance and walk into a trap. They've got enough men waiting for him along here

hey near enough seriously to threaten the Boy Scouts with capture. And at last, striking into the main road for Bremer

cout car, and opened up a way for the big car to p

make it a point to report my appreciation to your Troop commander. You'd better come along in the rea

up to the front of the column, chuckling and laughing as he tho

ately. One regiment, indeed, continued along the straight road

do now, Jack?"

k they'll manage to get behind the town in some fashion, and close in on the Blue troops in t

on his arm to show he was serving as an umpire,

means there can't be any dispute this time. General Bean has probably told him what he plans to do, and he will see h

I'm glad he's here, too. Do you suppose he's

signs and come this way just

"There's firing ahead! Let's get

of them for a few minutes, an

t of the war, too. Well, we may seem to be beaten in that, but I guess we can a

shots burst on the quiet air. Then, too, came the screa

ck. "We've surroun

ly outwitted, thanks to the cleverness of Jack Danby, was out of the war entirely. It was an important victory, in more ways than one. General Bliss could ill afford to lose so many men, and the

l Bean of their decision, and in congratul

as a masterly stroke,"

sm. "And it was a little tike of a Boy Scout, in my