The Hilltop Boys on the River

J.W.'s by mischance, but had really begun operations on Jack's b

e particular point about the engine, and had asked Jack's per

tric light turned on the engine when the evildoers came up and got to work. The first turn

iately threw aside the cover, and tur

were several of the boys of the same build, bu

owever, and he raised

number of the s

t to be a watch kept. Other camps have sentinels, and this should have

ey tried to hu't Mistah Jack's boat, did dey? Wha' yo' d

the engine to get the hang of it. Jack told me I might. Go to sleep nothing! I

tch dem, sah, dey

, and a number of the boys, aroused by the no

the boat, it having been drawn up on the beach

ny harm, and what, hole there was coul

in their hurry, and Jack picked th

d to Dick, "and many of the boys have tools ju

rcival, "and then we may find out something. It was a dirty trick

val, "but there are a good many big fellows among the boys, and tha

e damage. Still, it is likely that I would have seen the hole when I went to put th

ery sorry to know," added Percival, "we are in a pretty bad way. I

leasant," said Billy Manners dolefully.

e to do it if this sort of thing continues. I hate to t

who were just mean enough, but no one was accused, the matter being too serio

.W.?" asked Percival when the three were q

They started to run the minute I spoke, and when I turned the light on them they were going pretty fast. All

n, but it may come to having a regular guard a

I would give them a dollar apie

ughed at the young fe

id plea

e necessary to-night. Besides, if any one pays the men t

fering to pay men for watching another boy's b

Dick, and with you I do not think it will

orning nothing was found to be the matter with Jack's boat beyo

picious in their looks, speech or actions, but they were evidently prepared and on guar

rmined to watch them closely to see if there were any ground for his

between study and recreation, with a little drill and some gymnasium practice, c

and beat him in both, but nothing could induce him to race with Herring, and no one coul

our, and even with young Smith, to whom he allowed odds, but he declined all off

Jack did not pay the slightest attention to the charge, and the

boys had an idea that the doctor did not know what had happen

vered that Buck, as the cook was often called, was corporal

ight, but nothing unusual occurred, a

e last night, but I wonder i

d we don't know if he has done this on his own

am glad of it, for if there is anything I do not like it is having to parade

hize with you

ucephalus alone, and said to him,

a to keep guard

mith done offah me a dollah fo' de service, but de doc

tor know that we

tary etiquette, sah. It am de custom in military camps to se

ll him of what occur

cate nothing, sah. Mebbe it

e that you s

ts of de perceedin' night, sah. Ah was suttin dat young Mistah Smith would keep his wo

se acted on his own initiative from inf

hed his woolly he

on an' de oder misery, sah. A

account, and not because of anyt

eatly relieved. "Ah done told him nothin'

the coin he held in his hand to Buceph

ar that he knows about it. He would not set a guard on the camp unless he had a good reason, for stra

rd, Dick told his friend wh

but the doctor evidently thinks that some of our own Hilltoppers n

o be living up to his name. We must find out who the fellows were, Dick, for th

Jack," said Pe