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

one of those covered affairs so common a few years ago in c

ust as peaceful a few days before the big battle in 1863. You can't always tell by ap

r passage. At the end of the bridge Jack got out of the car, leaving Tom Binns at t

ssed this way to-day. If General Bliss thought this was his only line of advance, he'd have been certain to have had a few pickets here-or at least one o

u think it

al Bliss gets as good information as we do, and he must have figured out that he wouldn't be able to get here in time. If h

denly, "I just saw a flash over th

d only in the view. Gradually he worked over closer to Tom and the big car, and

I'm looking at them," he said in a low tone to

I called to you, of something that looked like a

t didn't seem natural, somehow, to find this place so

on't have to

nd they can't see us after we're on it. Then, as soon as we're under cover, I'm going to drop out. They can't see how many of us there

? Couldn't anyone who ca

en if you just leave a car outside a store for a couple of minutes when you go in to buy something. This car is great, too, because

hat am I to do afte

l find traces of them up there on the ridge, I'm sure, if they're really up there. I'll do the same thing fro

flags along, s

be able to find out and do here. A

e, he slipped cautiously back in the opposite direction, and at the entrance to the bridge dropped down to the bed of the creek. The season had been dry, and the water in the creek was very s

if whoever was on the ridge had guessed the ruse of the way in which he had left the automobile, they would not be looking for an attack from the direction in which he was making his stealthy,

cout, standing stiff and straight, and working his signal flags. He had to stand on a high spot and in a clearing to do this, as otherwise, of course, his flags could not have been seen at any distance.

the flags now came the ca

s showed on the face of the Blue Scout. He whirled around to face the soun

ainst the combined attack of Jack Danby and Tom Binns, who sp

isoner's chest, "but we had to do it. This is war, you s

ed for Scout service with the Blue army. You got me fair and square. We caught one of your

you in the road by the bridge, and I thought you'd gone off

bit. I guess you'll be exchanged pretty soon, too. We'll give you for Warner, you s

tie him up?" a

Canfield? Will you give me your word of honor? I'm Jack Danby, Assistant Patrol Leader of the

you, Corporal Danby. Sorry the tables aren't turned, though. We've got a special din

f the flags are j

s captured from Canfield wi

id. "We can use either his or our

om, and see what's coming. Can you

ng like the very dickens now, asking

ey scout car of the Red army, goi

the laugh with

e said. "I ought to be court-martialled for l

s was working his

orted to Jack.

Red Scouts watched the flags flashing in the d

swing around back toward Hardport in a big half-circle, of which this place where we are now is pretty nearly the centre. And it's the Newville road that's the line of their march, and not

ss obviously was entirely misleading, and in sending General Bean to Cripple Creek, as he had, he had simply deprived himself of a brigade, and, as he would learn in the morning, when the attack would most certainly begin, weakened a vital part of his lines. Bean was moving directly away from

age after message confirmed hi

relay broken here, they'll smell a rat at once, and investigate. There's enough of a trail here to show a blind man, much less a bunch of Scouts who are just as good in their State as we're supposed to be in our own, just what's happened. So you stay here,

of staying there alone, but he could see the necessity as easily as Jack himsel

are made a prisoner, and we won't need to feel that they've put one over on us if they catch you. We've got more than a fair return for the loss of even a

breaking his given word, Canfield made no attempt to escape or hamper Jack in any way. "I've heard a lot about you, and I'm glad to see you at work, even if it does make it

the driver's seat. "I'm really only making a guess, but I think it's a pretty good one. And, anyhow, with

e jim-dandy as a Scout! I'd hate to be against you in a real war. If you can handle things always th