The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters

dustrial School for Boys, known to the

hold the place next to him against the st

grily of his neighbor on the r

d to go up and change his clothes. Had the tootha

lain rose to say grace. After grace no loud talking was permitted, but no o

and I don't ever get to go, Nixy?" whis

t too many demerits. The fellows that get to town have to go

. Wouldn't hurt me to go another ten. If

en't back by six o'clock they have the police after you. The old man made a great talk about his

y to get around th

e o'clock. He doesn't want to stay until five because he goes off to play golf. So he'll leave me in his waiting-room when he goes. I'll have a suit of overalls rolled up under my uni

e you go down and a po

n't anybody around. Then I'd pick a dark night, and that fire-escape is

't. Supposin' you did g

nd pitch my uniform away and that night would get me tw

ybody could tell you a mile off. All to do is to

n. I've got the makings of a big

too much. If you'd ever learn to be a contortionist and tie

thing mean. I wish I hadn'

nything to yo

'Twouldn't be abov

you dare m

dare ye

I'd steal a pla

you'd do

at his foolishness. To put boys on their honor, to trust the merit boys to go into town without guard, all was new policy, and the only interest Glen had in it was to take advantage of it. Let him get one single chance to go to town alone and the reform school would see no more of him. Just what he would do he did not know. Sometimes a fleeting thought of going home to see the mother whose heart must be almost broken by his waywardness and the young sister and brother who were carefully guarded from knowledge of the disgrace he had brought upon them would come to him. But though he was supposed to be dead to impulses for reform there always c

avior marks he was bound to win it, though greatly to the surprise of the officers who had never known Glen to pass so long a t

od behavior. Now that the boy had earned the privilege of going to town without guard he did not wish to sp

tist, Glen?" he asked kindly. "Wh

th were sound as bullets. He had not sunk to

d, wishing that he could think of somethin

as he could have made, alth

to find what is the matter, do you?"

he dentist to find

It won't be necessary for you to go to town, thou

t week," cried Glen. "I want to go

inquired the

acrifice. Now that he had told the lie he would stay by it. He poi

looked at the too

know how much tha

r," agr

dred dollars, at your age. You woul

but I want

d dollars, but when Glen had his mind se

ss for this afternoon. You will wear your uniform, walk to the car line and take the stre

Glen changed color and looked foolish. He could t

on the streets remember that if you keep up your good behavior you may soon

t Nixon and some of the others who had been given liberty in town had never violated their trust. It seemed abominably mean and small to go back o

overalls under his uniform. The walk to the street car and the ride to the doctor's office would have been very enjoyable had not every one stared at him and his uniform. More than once he heard some one say "There

rt you more than th

e truthfully, an involuntary

o locate the pain definitely. The nerve reflexes are responsi

e to drill?

it. I often give the boys from the school a little sermon by tell

y as you can,"

But cleaning out

ould have fainted rath

the 'phone and called

I've done all I can to-day for him. I'm leaving

Glen as he re

hen take the inter-urban car," he said, locking the inner offi

led out of the reception room and changed his office

y entered the little closet and dressing himself in the dentist's office clothes made a bundle of his uniform. The closet was both deep and high. He climbed to the top shelf and shoved his bundle far back over its wide surface against the wall. He dared not risk going out in the doctor's clothing in daylight. He must stay until the building was deserted and use the fi

or. In sudden desperation he climbed up and lay flat on the wide shelf where he had hidd

'clock and showed him his car. He ain't

sure," replied

one of the school officials. S

ut there were lights in the hall. After a long time they were extinguished and the buildi

ging fast and letting one step follow another. Then suddenly the ladder stopped. Feel as he would, in this direction or in that, there were no more steps. He had known of fire-escapes ending ten or twelve feet from the ground with an extension which might be lowered. But he found no extension. He looked down, but it was black night and he could see nothing but shadowy outlines. Looking up, the ladder soon

choking and g