The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters

oled and freshened by the storm. Glen Mason both felt and saw a difference throughout all the camp on this quiet morning; no one exp

ereby did he make his contribution to the hallowing of the day. After breakfast was the regular time for announcement o

ly what we were searching for. This morning, after camp duties, every boy will find a quiet spot apart from any disturbance and write a letter home. Tell the folks how you feel, what you eat, what yo

" came a cho

replied Mr. Newton. "Perhap

n' I said, 'Death'; an' he said, 'God! It's in the hundred an' fourth Psalm.' S' then he said, 'You c'n stay in my tent till the blow is over,' an' I said, 'No. I'll go back to me tent like Christian. With God on the wings I'm safe

is afternoon a man is coming from town who has been all around the world and has seen the battles of great nations as a war correspondent. He will speak at three o'clock. By special request we will hold our

ver wrote what he thought because your letters were all read by the house officer. If he should write a letter home to-day some reform school officer would be inquiring at the camp for him day after to-morrow. But he would write s

me fine, too, and I don't know why he isn't one but it makes you feel as if him being such a good fellow certainly ought to be. He says laugh and the world laughs with you but it wouldn't have done much good to tell Chick-chick that last night and it wouldn't have made him brave enough to go back to his tent and fight it out. Chick-chick talked right up this morning. He's never said anything about being one before but he's always acted like one-kind of on the square. That's the kind I'm going to be; I mean I would be if ever I got to be one, but I suppose I'd have to go back to the school and I don't know about that.

oys had finished and were making a clamor for envelopes and stamps, a dist

ape the afternoon talk, bu

that speaker," he demanded. "If he's done

ar all that the speaker had to say. And a very interesting narrative it was, t

y of China, and he was single-handed. And I was obliged to admit that he was the bravest soldier I had seen; and since the appeal came to me so directly I volunteered. And thus it happened that one who had been a reporter of scenes of carnag

ned with torture, but he was greatly concerned and both his hand and heart throbbed with the hope that some one would respond to the eloquent plea that had stirr

d to do it, Glen

thing you need," urged Glen, as earnest

to the speaker. "You would hardly ca

e mighty glad to enlist a whole man like you. Whatever accident you have suffered

f the time. It doesn't ring true. I want a peace that will help me to have cheer regardless of whether the world laughs with me or

nd that Apple has

e war correspondent. "It is f

t know me," said Glen. "I'

t it," came t

d in the glow of confession he held nothing back, b

. You can't have been so bad but Jesus has cleared your debt. The one thing is, are you through

emotion such as he had

about and like these people that have been good to me lately. I'd do it even if I wouldn't like some of the t

self. And that's all you need to know. Your commander will see to the rest. You won't learn everything in a day. You'll make mis

en enl

o leave, but before doing so he gave

. I know your Superintendent and will telephone to him

the person of Mr. J. Jervice. The boys crowded around him with great interest, for although obliged to leave his car he ha

ily diverted, and did not even see his old friend Jervice. But Mr. J. Jervice having nothing of the kind to

school boy

run away from th

J. Jervice, "and don't forget tha

he fellow! Come on, scouts, let's run him out. The scoutmaster isn't h

n out?" asked Glen, coming up,

away from the reform school. You are a common

e flew at Matt with the velocity and ferocity of a tiger. His strength was that of a man, for he had worked hard at all kinds of manual l