DICK KENT WITH THE MOUNTED POLICE DICK KENT IN THE FAR NORTH DICK KENT WITH THE ESKIMOS DICK KENT, FUR TRADER DICK KENT WITH THE MALEMUTE MAIL DICK KENT ON SPECIAL DUTY DICK KENT AT HALF WAY HOUSE
Copyright, 1929
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
Printed in U. S. A.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I [Dinosaur’s Island] 3 II [Two Visitors] 10 III [Suspicion Grows] 18 IV [The First Encounter] 28 V [Dick Finds a Canoe] 37 VI [A Bleak Prospect] 45 VII [Breeds Don’t Count] 53 VIII [A Human Gorilla] 61 IX [Bows and Arrows] 66 X [Toma’s Daring Plan] 74 XI [A Canoe at Last] 82 XII [The Meeting on the River] 91 XIII [Half Way House] 100 XIV [Charges and Counter-charges] 107 XV [A Threatening Letter] 115 XVI [A Midnight Raid] 123 XVII [A Hidden Pit] 132 XVIII [Take the Offensive] 141 XIX [Troubles Come Fast] 150 XX [Toma Brings News] 158 XXI [Frazer’s Ruse] 167 XXII [Tension Tightens] 176 XXIII [The Police Take Charge] 183 XXIV [Near Frazer’s Cabin] 191 XXV [Gathering up the Threads] 199 XXVI [Frazer’s Confession] 205 XXVII [Toma’s Scar] 214 XXVIII [Leave-taking] 222 XXIX [The River Pilot] 231 XXX [Back from the Barracks] 243 XXXI [He Who Laughs Last] 253
DICK KENT AT HALF WAY HOUSE
CHAPTER I.
DINOSAUR’S ISLAND.
Just before dusk, riding in on a slight swell, the canoe touched on the leeward side of the island. It was a wooded island, similar to a score of others that dotted that lake. There was little to differentiate it from its brothers except that in its very center the fir and balsam had graciously withdrawn to permit a huge shaft of solid rock to raise its head loftily and majestically skyward.
The three young men who disembarked from the canoe, stood looking toward the shaft with something like eagerness in their eyes. Then one of them spoke:
“There it is! The rock of the dinosaur!”
Another of the trio, a stockily built boy with light blue eyes and sandy complexion, removed a battered felt hat that had been crammed down over his well-shaped head and ran his fingers through a mop of corn-colored hair.