Dave Porter's Great Search; Or, The Perils of a Young Civil Engineer

by Edward Stratemeyer

Edward Stratemeyer.

May 1, 1917.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	In the Mountains	[1]
II	Something About the Past	[12]
III	A Surprise of the Road	[22]
IV	What Phil’s Letter Told	[34]
V	Nick Jasniff’s Visit	[45]
VI	News from Home	[58]
VII	The Fight on the Trail	[68]
VIII	What Was Missing	[77]
IX	Dave at Orella	[88]
X	What the Girls Had to Tell	[98]
XI	The Oak Hall Chums	[109]
XII	On the Mountain Top	[120]
XIII	To the Rescue of Shadow	[130]
XIV	Something About Bears	[142]
XV	The Trail to Nowhere	[152]
XVI	Waiting for Letters	[162]
XVII	Bad News	[172]
XVIII	On the Way East	[183]
XIX	The Demand for Money	[192]
XX	Beginning the Great Search	[202]
XXI	Stuck on the Road	[212]
XXII	The First Clue	[221]
XXIII	What the Little Girls Knew	[230]
XXIV	Another Clue	[238]
XXV	What Horsehair Had to Tell	[247]
XXVI	The Mountain Road	[257]
XXVII	To the Rescue	[267]
XXVIII	Prisoners	[277]
XXIX	Trying to Escape	[286]
XXX	The Round-Up—Conclusion	[296]

DAVE PORTER’S GREAT SEARCH

CHAPTER I
IN THE MOUNTAINS

“What do you think of that sky, Dave?”

“It looks to me as if we were in for a storm, Roger,” answered Dave Porter, a trace of anxiety crossing his usually pleasant features.

“Perhaps it is only wind,” vouchsafed Roger Morr, after he brought his horse to a standstill so that he might scan the distant horizon minutely. “You know they do have some terrible wind storms out here in Montana.”

“Oh, yes. I remember the big winds we had when we were out at Star Ranch,” answered Dave. “Don’t you remember once we thought we were in for a regular tornado?”