CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Schoolboy Chums | [1] |
| II. | A Glimpse at the Past | [16] |
| III. | What Dave Had to Tell | [18] |
| IV. | The Schoolboy Hunters | [28] |
| V. | A Tramp Through the Snow | [38] |
| VI. | Good-by to Oak Hall | [48] |
| VII. | Nat Poole’s Revelation | [58] |
| VIII. | A Merry Christmas | [63] |
| IX. | Nat Poole Gets Caught | [78] |
| X. | What Happened at the Jewelry Works | [88] |
| XI. | Looking for the Robbers | [98] |
| XII. | The Telltale Cigarette Box | [108] |
| XIII. | Dark Days | [118] |
| XIV. | Off for the South | [128] |
| XV. | Something About White Mice | [138] |
| XVI. | Picking up the Trail | [147] |
| XVII. | Meeting Old Friends | [157] |
| XVIII. | Off for Barbados | [167] |
| XIX. | The Missing Ship | [177] |
| XX. | Landing on Cave Island | [187] |
| XXI. | Into a Cave and Out | [197] |
| XXII. | The Hurricane | [207] |
| XXIII. | A Strange Discovery | [217] |
| XXIV. | Jasniff and Merwell | [227] |
| XXV. | Link Merwell’s Story | [237] |
| XXVI. | The Column of Smoke | [247] |
| XXVII. | Behind the Curtain of Vines | [257] |
| XXVIII. | In Which the Enemy Sails Away | [267] |
| XXIX. | A Chase on the Ocean | [277] |
| XXX. | Homeward Bound—Conclusion | [287] |
DAVE PORTER ON CAVE ISLAND
CHAPTER I—THE SCHOOLBOY CHUMS
“Come on, fellows, if you are going! It’s a good six-mile skate to Squirrel Island, and we’ve got to hustle if we want to get there in time for lunch.”
“Wait till I fix my right skate, Dave,” returned Phil Lawrence. “I don’t want to lose it on the way.”
“Say, that puts me in mind of a story,” came from another of the group of schoolboys who were adjusting their skates. “Once a man asked for a pair of skates for——”
“Stow it, Shadow!” interrupted Dave Porter. “We haven’t any time now to listen to stories. You can tell them while we are resting up at the island.”