The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters

lf up and crawling over the side. Then he stood in the shelter of the barrel and wrung a gallon or so of water out of the doctor's clothes. When the job was finished he had pretty well destro

nation. It was the electric lighting of a park, which even at that hour was thronged with visitors. The boy who had been shut up for a year and more looked hungrily through the grea

rill of anticipatory pleasure. The music began, the movement gradually quickened, and he was just giving himself up to the pleasure of it when he saw working toward him, on the inside running-board, a man collecting tickets. On his coat was the nickeled badge of a constable. Glen did not know that he

have supposed the park policed by an army. He had just dodged one of t

the bathhou

, Jake?" he ask

away from the reform school. They think he might just have come ou

t m

t him as he goes out. I'll watc

ss there were numbers of hatless boys in the park. There were many people of all kinds, in fact, and if he went with the crowd, he could sure

er the door with the evident idea of jumping to the ground. When Glen saw him he was poised on the running board ready for his jump. Like a flash Glen jumped for the footboard of the moving car and interposed his body as an o

hand, "and this is my wife and daughter. We don't know

e you back into town,"

est, into the cou

es. "We live eight miles west of her

eplied. "I live away out west and am on

e from the officer who was watching for an esca

Gates, "and it was all new to us. That is why we lost sight of

id Glen. "And I am glad I saw this monkey.

have been badly hurt or even killed. Certainly you were led by Pro

came to the park in running away from the reform school. He had not yet learned that the power of God may even overrule our

He yielded, thinking that he would get up very early and slip away before they were astir in the morning. B

him every kindness. At breakfast Mr. Gates heaped his plate with good things. They were so cordial in their invitation to stay and rest for awhile that he could not refuse them. They showed to him such a spirit of love as made him feel

paper which Mr. Gates had been reading. It was folded back at a place which told of his disappearance from the reform school. He was as

res to fare forth into the world alone, he much disliked to leave this cheery home. Had he bee

s he unsuccessfully labored at changing a tire. The automobile was no ordinary car. It had a driver's seat in front and a closed car behind like the closed delivery wagons Glen had seen in town

reely offered before the man spoke so much as a word. It had not been Glen's ha

y was so churlish as to leave open the suspicion

narled. "I don't need no b

ou seem to need somebody pretty bad. You

with jest one pair of hands. While I pry it off one end it slips ba

ed Glen, modestly, "but I don't want

ddler admitted. "I can't pay you nothing fo

I want," agreed Gle

g in service as long as the wheel to which it clung-at least it resisted most strenuously all efforts to detach it. Both Glen and the man were moist with their efforts before it came away, and they accumulated still more dirt and

he asked, as Mr. Gate

ed Mr. J. Jervice; "this

stioning tone that betokened affairs out of the ordinary; furthermore, Mr. J. Jervice seemed t

mething to say to him, that's all. If he will come o

o the folded newspaper and

his gentleman's agreed to give me a rid

e you to town if you wish, but first I want you to go ba

ld, unrestrained passi

"I saw the newspaper. You want to

chool, but I will go with you and speak for you. You must go back because it is the only right way out. Let me tell you, Glen, you will

en dollars that's always paid for returning a

ose of Mr. J. Jervice were not. They lightened with a sudden

He's earned a ride and I promised it and I'm a man

s. "I am not interested in the school or the rewa

Mr. J. Jervice, as his car gat

n as the car got

m school, eh? And he was goin' to

ed me awful fine while I was at his house. I just said that because I was mad

rvice. "Ten dollars is pretty

erence with him," said Glen.

deep an impression his Christian character had

in to that of the fox and the geese (he to be the fox). So they drove along in comparative

most there

Mr. J. Jervice. "What you go

efore we get to town. I don't believe Mr. Gates w

re's lots o' room and there's a ventilator back o' this seat will give ye air. You be real carefu

oors slammed behind him and he heard the heavy steel bar drop into its slots. Then he heard somethi

his seat again Glen shouted t

don't like being in here and I believe I'll

ice paid no