Hal Kenyon Disappears

demanded Dr. Byrd sternly, yet with

l training instructor. "I thought I heard

f anything serious had happened to Kenyon while the boy was in his charge. He felt guilty. He knew tha

back?" called out the doctor addressing the crowd

ining-room," suggested Mr.

tor. "I've been sitting out here for ten minutes waiting

ilence for a few moments, an

to that boy I'm going to f

ime and it's over his head, lots of places

d," declared Mr. Porter. "I kept my eyes on the

reply to this assura

nd get your supper; t

and hunt for Hal?" p

ng any more of you. Besides, you've done e

afternoon's work, but love for their lost schoolmate had a refreshing effect. Bu

filed into the wash room to prepare for supper, he was in

nd stick to the hunt until we find him-d

ded boy and will be showing up with an explanation before long. I haven't known him to get into

serious accident has befallen him. But you go and find Pepper and have him get the auto ready, Mr. Porter; and, Mr. Frankland, you

nation served to put speed in his actions, and in fifteen

aboard and all climbed in. Mr. Frankland, with two rakes in hand, sat behind with Mr. Po

man, always ready with "home-remedy" advice and droll humor. He could tell "bad boys" what was go

nd then said nothing more. His silence might have been construed variously. He was fond of Hal, as was everybody else at the school, and possi

. They rode along in silence for most of the way. The doctor had gained all the information that seemed obtainable. Mr. Porter, because of the crit

Lake River near its junction with Flathead River, which ran through the ca?on, and along this they advan

away after each shout; but no reply came. Then they lighted their lanter

om a middle point in this section that search for the missing boy began. For a few hundred feet here the water was deep and comparat

the water. There was little comfort in the feelings that possessed them as they gazed. The falling water glittered in the yellow moonlight, seeming to shine f

away. They walked some distance down stream until their

he's drowned, we can't do anything for hi

uggest that we hunt firs

near the falls. He may have

every place you suggest b

rved coming up along the shore, and th

ere reunited, Mr

and fairly level. We measured the water with our rake, too, and it i

the falls," said Dr. Byrd. "We're going up in the timber and

other side and was hunting along the steep base of ol

ctor; "but we'll follow that up a

ascended with the bed of the stream. The soil was fairly good here, being comparatively free from small stones and g

ng their lanterns into every hole or depression, and stopping every now and then to call Hal's n

. Porter. "He was working that way most of the time I t

e largest and lowest fall and began to work up. Two of the men held the lanterns, w

found the body of the missing boy, but their discovery proved to be only a log or a tangled mass of sticks and weeds. Finally the

is to go to the other side and rake the ri

our luck not to find him," said Mr. Porter. "The body's pro

ain to-morrow and drag the river to its junction w

remarked Pepper, who had been strangely si

o was still nervous and easily drawn i

ur. "That noise every little bit. Sounds l

nual training instructor. "It's a twist or e

've been here on Sunday afternoon and set here listen

a ghost?" inquired Mr. Po

ut it's something 'at ought to be looked int

Dr. Byrd at this point. "I wonder what it can be.

er," said Mr

thrilling fearfully every member of the boy-hunting party. For a few moments everybo

got to find out