The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey

n ejaculation, and then

he Chief that tip you mentioned, if Owen here has discovered something big.

ngs around the house for mother. One of the pipes had frozen and had to be thawed out. Then there were other jobs that kept me busy for an hour. Finally, when I began to hope I might get

ch a lugubrious expressio

d, Owen," he went on to remark. "Of course you'd much rather have been skat

turned a bend ahead. I saw that it was a boy who was smoking a cigarette like everything,-yes, Tip Slavin, if you please. He discovered me at

chu

s that time, Owen. Did you accuse him

t in the world that's what would have followed. But I made out as if I hadn't noti

impressively, "because already I can guess you had some s

ng care he didn't glimpse me. When I saw him stop as if deciding on something I was disappointed, because I expected he mea

cigarette he had thrown awa

h side of the road he'd tossed the stub; so I didn't have much trouble a

dkerchief. It turned out to be a half-smoked cigarette. Hugh fastened his eyes instantly

the road to the mill-pond, perhaps in a hollow tree in the woods. A clever police officer could easily find it by following back Tip's trail, and learning jus

an investigator of crime for a livelihood believe me there'll be a great loss to the world. I wonder now

ghed as he we

hen Owen here told us about a hidden cache I only gave you my opinion as to what would be the easiest way to

g to injure Tip, though I've got little cause to love the brute. But since I actually know something that would prove a valuable clue to the officers, I'm afraid it would

, and your duty is pl

e the Chief, you me

mind, if nothing else," Hugh told the hesitating

I'm in now, and I'll have to shoulder my share of the responsibility, I guess. So, while the thing is still fresh in my mind, I'll trot around to Headquarters to

rform, however unpleasant it might be, Owen was ac

fter the othe

d smoking one of those stolen cigarettes. Pretty cute of him, too, sneaking back and hunting for the evid

, although he felt a twinge when his mind

of it; because, only for that sudden change of heart on his part, brought around by what you did

had returned home somewhat earlier than customary, as he had something to do for his moth

ters going and coming all the while, the prospect is so alluring that it is indeed difficult for any lad to break away. And the father who has not forgotten his own shortcomings of long a

this sort of thing, though the ice had been kept well cleared through the use of brooms handled by many willing hands. The skat

toes that his mother had purchased, and which should have been delivered before then, only that t

by twilight before getting back home; but that was a small matter, since he knew the r

when the zero mark was approached by the mercury in the tube of the thermometer. He also kept his

chin the boy found nothing to complain about in that cold atmosphere, for

e children gathered about the kitchen stove, "I'm thinking this bracing weather that we boys have wanted to see so much, is pretty hard on p

at all fleet, was a steady goer, and Hugh had not allowed him to "loaf

ich he had brought along with him, to prevent any chance of the precious tubers freezing. A basket, with some other things, was

at the time he did not even suspect what an intimate relation it might have in connect

ripped the lines tighter, and strained his eyes to see what was wrong, while, perhaps, his heart did star

red, greatly to his surprise, that it was a woman, and that

sted by want of food and the severe cold. Hugh guessed that possibly the couple must have come out of a side road he h

feeble words, "Help-my poor little boy!" and then, to