[1 Found in the Sand] 1 [2 A Coded Message] 15 [3 Stolen Furs] 30 [4 Fluke Victory] 45 [5 Paper Bag Eddie] 59 [6 Stranded] 71 [7 Camp Site] 80 [8 “Dan Carter—Take Warning”] 95 [9 A Missing Code] 108 [10 The Man at the Spring] 122 [11 A Barbecue for the Cubs] 137 [12 Following the Trail] 150 [13 Identifying a Prisoner] 161 [14 Victory for Den 2] 184 [15 The Pay-Off] 204
Dan Carter—Cub Scout and the River Camp
CHAPTER 1
Found in the Sand
“Unless a breeze springs up soon, we’ll be late for the Cub Scout meeting in the Cave,” Dan Carter complained.
Sprawled in the drifting dinghy, the sandy-haired boy raised his eyes to the limp sail which hung in discouraged folds from the tall mast.
“We’ve already missed the first part of it,” remarked Midge Holloway.
A freckled youth of ten, he had draped himself pretzel-fashion over the boat’s bow. His skinny legs dangled a bare inch above the placid surface of the wide river.
“What time is it anyhow?” he demanded.
At the tiller of the sailboat, Midge’s father, Burton Holloway, snapped on his flashlight to see the dial of his wrist watch. An official “Den Dad” of Webster City Den No. 2, he frequently made river trips with the boys and allowed them to use his sailboat whenever they liked.
On this summer day, the three, after scrubbing the craft’s fouled bottom, had set forth for a brief sail. The wind, however, had died suddenly, leaving them stranded far from their Yacht Club moorings.