CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Ramming an Ox Cart]1
II.[A Nest of Serpents]11
III.[The Deserted Cabin]20
IV.[News from the Mine]30
V.[Trouble Ahead]39
VI.[On a Strange Road]46
VII.[The Rescue of Tommy Bell]55
VIII.[Pursued by Enemies]65
IX.[Into the Cave]72
X.[Attacked by a Cougar]81
XI.[A Runaway Auto]90
XII.[Tommy Finds a Friend]98
XIII.[The Colored Man’s Ghost]107
XIV.[Trouble With a Bad Man]117
XV.[The Story of Lost Lake]127
XVI.[A Lonely Cabin]135
XVII.[The Indian and the Auto]144
XVIII.[Lost Lake Found]152
XIX.[The Ghost of the Lake]161
XX.[The Mysterious Woman]169
XXI.[The Den of the Hermit]175
XXII.[A Revelation]185
XXIII.[Searching for the Hermit]195
XXIV.[The Hermit’s Identity]203
XXV.[Attacked by the Enemy]212
XXVI.[On the Road Again]221
XXVII.[Trouble at the Mine]227
XXVIII.[All’s Well that Ends Well]237

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[THE BEAR WAS TRYING TO CLIMB UP ON THE ENGINE HOOD.]
[THE INDIAN SEEMED TO KNOW HOW TO OPERATE IT.]
[THE NEXT INSTANT THE BOY HAD MADE A FLYING LEAP INTO THE CAR.]

PREFACE

Dear Boys:

Here it is at last—the fourth volume of “The Motor Boys Series,” for which so many boys all over our land have been asking during the past year.