The Ranger Boys Outwit the Timber Thieves

or Portland, Boston and way s

on in a few seconds now. My, but I'll be glad to see Dad again. And he promises us some real action, too. I wonde

t he wants, Garry, just be glad that we have a chance to get into action of some kind. These past few weeks have gotten

he sleep from his eyes, and then got up and stretched his

boys, having dug out their knapsacks and rifles from between the seats where they

" half grumbled Dick. It must be explained that Dick, because of his

henever he had to. As a matter of fact, he had made long hikes in the woods without eve

and something to eat the minute h

time is an apple, three bananas, and I don't know how many bags of peanuts. If the train boy

tite, that their remarks rolled off him as does water off a duck's back. "I move we postpone hearing what Dad Boone has to

a strange figure as they walked through the lobby, for they were clad in broad brimmed Stetson army hats, khaki coats cut like hunters' jackets, wi

was a lariat. In addition, a stout forest hatchet was thrust t

ction as they walked to the desk where Gar

immediately was told to send the boys up. Following in the wake of

their healthy appearance, for the sun and op

ver, Mr. Bo

t for you, I suggest that we get our d

" uttered Dick

ut hit the spot with you,

to death; he hasn't had anything to

ard the dining room, while they unanimously or

he three volumes preceding this one, "The Ranger Boys to the Rescue," "The Ranger Boys Find the Hermi

, close friend of Garry, and ward of Mr. Boone. The third is Phil Durant, a boy of French Canadian parentage. The three boys live in a

been decided that Garry and Dick shall go to a military school the com

to the woods. Mr. Boone, father of Garry, who owned extensive lumber tracts in the Maine woods and was conn

t prove to be tiresome before it was concluded, that the boys become attached

imber lands of the state. In this service there were two branches, the men who act as lookouts, having an unchanged station, and the patrol m

and owned by Mr. Boone. They had no thought of any adventure other than that which might be caused by the discovery of a fire, but on their

make a staunch friend in the person of Nate Webster, an old Maine guide. Later Webster replaces the Deputy Ranger, Anderson by name, who has pr

ermit, who on several occasions warns the boys o

ng in the woods. With the aid of a note from the hermit, the boys are able to rescue her and capture LeBl

ce of a gang of smugglers on the Canadian border. This they do and the gang is seized, all except LeBlanc who dodges back ac

g the search for the gang of border smugglers is the finding, with the aid of an old map, of a tourmaline mine. The boys get

te of Mr. Boone. He had a fall from a horse that destroyed his memory, and before an operation could be performed, disappeared. Dick's mother

boys and their previous activities, let

y I severed connections with several of the mills, and put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak, by investing my funds all in one mill. Of course it is impossible to do business on a big scale without making many busin

all the timber that I can cut, so I contract to supply other mill

ivers and then when the spring unleashed the ice-bound rivers, the logs could be driven down to the mills. However, I am figuring on getting out lumber for building during the summer and in the winter getting the logs for the pul

moment that I turn my back a saw breaks, making a week's delay, or a tractor is broken, or something else happens. Unfortunately my financial affairs at the present time are in such shape that I

siness rivals, and that there is underground work of some sort going on. Since your success in getting that gang of smugglers, the co

and camp there. You would have the freedom of the camp, as I would write the mana

give you no instructions, for if I knew what the matter was I would not have to call on you for assistance. I am simply relying on you to be able to do as good a job for me as you have

ed, "Well, boys, what do you think of the proposition? Are you willing to undertake it? Not that there

he proposition offered a chance for much excitement, and this was what they wanted. Thrilling adventures were for them the spice of