Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box

the West. "I don't want to be eaten up by that cat-and

ter with him, set off at full speed for the motor car,

ire not to be eaten up by the panther because of what Mr. Bill Hicks, of Bu

ing his sister into the tonneau. With the injured Jerry, the back of the ca

d Ruth Fielding. "T

r?" demanded Jerry, s

beast were below in the ravine, yelling, and driving the creature toward them. The motor car was the

d directly for the huge cat, and the latter undoubtedly had faste

Northern Adirondacks and in the foothills of the Montana Rockies) met peril in a somewhat similar form.

at the Red Mill, belonging to her great uncle, Jabez Potter, at first as an object of charity, for Uncle Jabez was a miserly and ill-tempered old fellow. The adventures of t

ood Hall to school, Ruth had gone with her, and the fun, friendships, rivalries, and adventures of their fi

heroine and her friends; and later, after the school year is concluded, we find them all at the seaside home of one of the Briarwo

t a part of the summer vacation with Jane Ann Hicks, and their many adventures are fully related in the

ck panther, its gleaming eyes fixed upon the stalled motor car and the youn

. The distance was too great for the brute to pass immediately to t

uick, Tom!"

" groaned h

we mus

fire in her eye. "I'm not going to r

ming," said Ruth, decid

young man, who was still a stranger to th

good to run," cried Rut

rked at last. Tom threw in his clutch and the car lunged

n. The creature could not change its course; nor could

that flashing black body darting through the air was enough to shake the nerve

e was a splintering crash, and the windshield was shivered. The body of the pa

rolled; and off toward the road, in a lo

ning his blazing face once to lo

k, Tommy!" returne

rinking into her seat again and beginning

moke wagons! My! wouldn't it make Bashful Ike's eyes bulge out? I reckon he wouldn't believe we had

r heard of," remarked Jerry Sheming. "Why! a

Tom, quite taken up wit

th. "Oh! I hope it will do no

think about. This Jerry Sheming had been "playing 'possum." Sudd

"What shall we do? He is

?" demanded Jane A

white," said He

declared the girl from Silver Ranch, who had seen many a man suff

e green lamps. Jerry Sheming had come to his senses long since and seemed

had not been a passenger on the train in which Jane Ann was riding when the wrec

. I heard of a job up at Grading-and I ne

was needed. When Dr. Davison asked where th

e after us, Doctor, if you think he ough

y, Miss?" groaned the injured youth. A

se you," laughed Ruth.

thie. You take him along to your house. I'll come right out behind you and will b

with the twins for the few days intervening before the young folk went back to school-the girls to Briarwood, a

girl, grinning over his shoulder as the car flew on toward the Red Mill. "Guess you'll have to bid

d, tossing her head. "If I don't get my

t them. And Aunt Alvirah came hobbling to the door again, murmuring, "Oh, my back! and oh, my bones!" and quite

this boy in the best bed," grumbled Aunt Alvirah, after a bit, when she and Ruth were left alone with Je