The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol

by John Henry Goldfrap

THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE EAGLE PATROL

By

Lieut. Howard Payson

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I	[SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL]
II	[A CRUISE TO THE ISLAND]
III	[BOY SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE]
IV	[SAM IN DIRE STRAITS]
V	[THE BULLY SPRINGS A SURPRISE]
VI	[AN ISLAND MYSTERY]
VII	[SOME STRANGE DOINGS]
VIII	[THE STOLEN UNIFORMS]
IX	[THE HYDROPLANE QUEERLY RECOVERED]
X	[WINNING THE CONTEST]
XI	[A FORTUNATE DISCOVERY]
XII	[JACK FORMS A PLOT]
XIII	[THE "FLYING FISH" ON HER METTLE]
XIV	[THE EAGLES IN CAMP]
XV	[THE CHUMS IN PERIL]
XVI	[LOST IN THE STORM]
XVII	[ALMOST RUN DOWN]
XVIII	[JOE DIGBY MISSING]
XIX	[SAM REBELS]
XX	[THE HUNT FOR TENDERFOOT JOE]
XXI	[SAVED BY "SMOKE MORSE"]
XXII	[THE ESCAPE OF THE BULLY]
XXIII	[SCOUTS IN NEED ARE FRIENDS INDEED]
XXIV	[A MEETING IN THE FOG—CONCLUSION]

CHAPTER I

SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL

The dark growth of scrub oak and pine parted suddenly and the lithe figure of a boy of about seventeen emerged suddenly into the little clearing. The lad who had so abruptly materialized from the close-growing vegetation peculiar to the region about the little town of Hampton, on the south shore of Long Island, wore a well-fitting uniform of brown khaki, canvas leggings of the same hue and a soft hat of the campaign variety, turned up at one side. To the front of his headpiece was fastened a metal badge, resembling the three-pointed arrow head utilized on old maps to indicate the north. On a metal scroll beneath it were embossed the words: "Be Prepared."

The manner of the badge's attachment would have indicated at once, to any one familiar with the organization, that the lad wearing it was the patrol leader of the local band of Boy Scouts.