On the following morning the boys would have been away in the Manhattan, but that night Captain Curtis visited them and left a sealed envelope with Ned.
"You are to open that at Portland, Oregon," he said.
Ned did not look altogether pleased when he read the papers contained in the sealed envelope.
"There's going to be trouble up in the Northwest," he said, "and we're going there on government service. And we're going to have aeroplanes! Think of it!"
There was a shout, and Ned was almost buried under a collection of legs and arms.
"Whoop—ee!" cried Jack. "Me for the aeroplanes!"
THE END.
The story of the Boy Scouts' adventures in the Northwest will be found in the next book of the series, "Boy Scouts in the Northwest, or, Fighting Forest Fires." Chicago, M. A. Donohue & Co.. publishers.
[1] Boy Scouts In Mexico; or, On Guard with Uncle Sam. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam.