Copyright, 1911,
BY
HURST & COMPANY
MADE IN U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. [Sea Scouts at Play] 5 II. [The Spearing of the Sturgeon] 18 III. [Jack Curtiss Reappears] 32 IV. [Paul Perkins’ Motor Scooter] 43 V. [The Boy Who Made the Wheels Go Round] 54 VI. [Two Mysterious Men] 65 VII. [How a Secret Passage Was Used] 74 VIII. [An Unexpected Encounter] 84 IX. [Wherein Captain Hudgins’ Bees Swarm] 95 X. [Mr. Stonington Hunt—Schemer] 106 XI. [The Army Airship] 120 XII. [Tubby Escapes an Orange Bomb] 133 XIII. [What Happened in the Woods] 145 XIV. [Mr. Hunt Delivers a Telegram] 156 XV. [A Boy Who Flew] 170 XVI. [“There’s Many a Slip——”] 182 XVII. [Fire!] 193 XVIII. [Jack Uses a File] 208 XIX. [The Great Race] 221 XX. [A Schooner in Trouble] 232 XXI. [Motor-Scooters to the Rescue] 246 XXII. [Jim Dugan Again] 257 XXIII. [A Chase in the Night] 272 XXIV. [A Bolt from the Blue] 289
The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship
CHAPTER I.
SEA SCOUTS AT PLAY.
“Go!”
Commodore Wingate of the Hampton Yacht Club gave the word in a sharp, tense voice. The pistol he held extended above his head cracked sharply. The crowds massed upon the clubhouse verandas and in the vicinity broke into hoarse cheers as the tension of waiting was relieved.
“There they go!” came the cry.
Before the puff of blue smoke from the discharged pistol had been wafted away by a light breeze, two eighteen-foot, double-ended whaleboats shot out from either side of the float. For ten minutes or more they had been teetering there, like leashed greyhounds. This was while the final words of instruction were being given. Now the suspense of the preliminaries was over, and the “Spearing the Sturgeon” contest, between the Hawk and Eagle Patrols of Hampton, was on.