CHAPTER PAGE I [Through the Window] 15 II [The Getaway] 29 III [Into the Air] 41 IV [Gaining an Ally] 53 V [Strange Doings at Turner’s] 67 VI [Watchers in the Trees] 81 VII [The Mysterious Trio] 95 VIII [The Man with the Nervous Affliction] 111 IX [The Offer and the Threat] 129 X [Another Intruder] 143 XI [From Bad to Worse] 153 XII [On the Way] 167 XIII [Pig Island Again] 179 XIV [Bill Blows Up] 193 XV [The Laundry Hamper] 205 XVI [Through the Skylight] 219 XVII [Bill’s Way] 237
Bill Bolton and the Hidden Danger
Chapter I
THROUGH THE WINDOW
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bill Bolton, startled from a sound sleep, sat up in bed.
His room was pitch dark. For a moment or two he listened to wind whistling through trees and the swishing pound of a heavy downpour. Lightning flashed in the bright flare of a summer electrical storm, and through open windows he saw rain in steel rods lashing the darker night.
Crash! Bang! Bang!
“Thunder, that’s all,” said young Bolton and lay down again.
Crack!
Bill was out of bed in a jiffy. He heard the unmistakable ping of a bullet as it struck the rainpipe by his farther window.