Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER	PAGE
I	The House in the Lane	[1]
II	An Echo of the War	[6]
III	A New Acquaintance	[14]
IV	Pee-wee Fixes It	[26]
V	Pee-wee’s Discovery	[30]
VI	Sunday the Fourteenth	[36]
VII	Then and Now	[44]
VIII	Peace!	[49]
IX	Around the Fire	[54]
X	The Fall of Scout Harris	[62]
XI	Young Mr. Blythe	[69]
XII	Three’s a Company	[72]
XIII	Warde Is in Earnest	[79]
XIV	Baffled?	[86]
XV	Within Reach	[93]
XVI	Right Side Out	[97]
XVII	A Revelation	[99]
XVIII	The Test	[103]
XIX	The Dull Blaze	[108]
XX	The Voice	[114]
XXI	The Diagonal Mark	[120]
XXII	The Banshee	[126]
XXIII	After the Storm	[133]
XXIV	The Warning	[136]
XXV	The Good Turn	[141]
XXVI	Mr. Ferrett’s Triumph	[146]
XXVII	Scout Law Number Two	[155]
XXVIII	Home Sweet Home	[164]
XXIX	A Discovery	[172]
XXX	The Visit	[175]
XXXI	Hark, the Conquering Hero Comes	[182]
XXXII	Return of the Good Turn	[187]
XXXIII	The Mystery	[194]
XXXIV	Seein’ Things	[202]

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ROY BLAKELEY IN THE HAUNTED CAMP

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CHAPTER I
THE HOUSE IN THE LANE

One fine day in the merry month of August when the birds were singing in the trees and all the schools were closed and hikes and camping and ice cream cones were in season, and the chickens were congregated on the platform of the Hicksville, North Carolina, post office, something of far reaching consequence happened.

On that day Joshua Hicks, postmaster-general of that thriving world centre, emerged from the post office, adjusted his octagon-shaped, steel-rimmed spectacles exactly half way down his long nose, held a certain large envelope at arm’s length and contemplating it with an air of rueful perplexity said,

“Well–by–gum!”

Then he cocked his head to one side, then to the other, squinted first his right eye, then his left, and at last inquired, of the chickens, apparently,