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

r would take up nearly half an hour of time that was now most valuable, he had better hurry right through to headquarters, and

lity, be keeping a particularly careful watch for him, and he was confident

y, but he was burning up the ground at such a rate that they probably were no

"She's a daisy, too. I never was in a car before that rode as easily as this,

rushed at once into the hotel, and his earnest, dust-streaked face so impress

tructions, General," said Jack. "I have used more than the t

, and how, by taking the place of their prisoner with the f

inutes. He pressed two or three buttons, and, as

objective point, throwing out heavy skirmish lines and advance pickets to prevent a surpr

rder saluted, turned on hi

eaches the Newville pike. Thence he will turn to support any movement General Bean may find it necessary to make there. Colonel Abbey will not engage the enemy,

f from the main body of this army we would have had to abandon Hardport at once. General Bean would certainly have been captured, and we would have had to fall back on the capital, with an excellent prospect of being attacked and forced

of being in the room of a general on active service, for the constant stream of orders General Harkness was

use to the enemy. Rather a dog-in-the-manger policy, I suppose-" this to Jack, since the officer had gone to obey the order-"but that's war. If you can't make any use of a town or a lot of supplies yourself, remember always that that is no reason why the enemy should not find them of the utmos

while he realized that it was a great compliment for the General to ta

an order

oop, General," he said, saluting. "H

he General, smiling as he

," said Jack. "I left him behin

the salute when he appeared, "that the enemy now has reason to believe tha

that, my boy?"

think they ought to hear that at General Bliss's headquarters, so I changed the message in relaying it, and said that it was now positively determin

w did you get here, my boy? I don't see h

way I ran into one of their outposts, and a man with a motorcycle chased me. But he had a puncture-I think that was because I dropped my knife in the road-and he had to stop to repair th

Bremerton. That is likely to be nearer the scene of battle in the morning than this town, and you have both done a good day's work in any case. I am highly pleased with you. Carry my compliments to Captain Durland, and say to him that I shall be gla

reeling with fatigue by this time, for it was nearly nine o'clock

rs with the motorcycle," he said to

id we never knew what we could do until we had to do it. It's certainly true with me, because i

, they might have smelled a rat, and the best part of our catching Canfield was that they did