The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players

e others came crowding up, and stared at the tell-tale mark. As their scout education had long sinc

ot made that mark,

second one not so big. Two fellows crossed this hole in the wall,

couts to exchange

self, "whoever made those footprints was a

ind, Hugh realized. Alec meanwhile was shaking

most of the fellows turning to the scout master

"First of all, these fellows may be a couple of curious countrymen wanting to take a

n, Hugh; w

and wonder if they could pick up anything worth carrying off if they forc

nly person with money to burn who's taken a notion to buy Randall

a rival in the field, perhaps we might scare him off in some way. That would

throwing my voice, H

could play the ghost r

y-out and see wha

l here, and find the trail of these two unknown men. After all it may turn out they are simple

tle dexterity; though clumsy Billy had to catch his toe among the stones, and come n

stones; a mere tyro of a scout could have succeeded in following such a

ly the men had picked out the easiest way to advance. They must have either known where they were goi

se of the castle!" whi

spectacle. The westering sun shone on the tower that had been made to look like some old-time type English

ing thus presented to their gaze for a minute or so

ed Alec, which was as much as saying that

cautione

ink you heard?" aske

ahead of us," came the answer. "The

her and enter the haunted castle," chuckled Alec. "Let's

ot by foot. All the woodcraft they had managed to pick up in pr

gave the low

ugh," announce

egged Billy, pushi

Arthur was heard t

They must have heard about a fine house lying idle here, and have come to camp out for a spell. You can see they've got a chicken

and sniffed

ion is, do we want to stand for that couple of greasy hoboes keeping us company while we c

a shudder. "I'd sooner sleep in a pigpen than alon

t rob us of our blankets; or worse, of our precious grub

ce them, that's plain,"

r what you the sam

us of the pair," the scout master told him, "go to it ri

ad tossed upon the ground. He soon found what he was looking fo

've got there, Mo

it throws a scare into those tramps it might work just as bad with some other fe

one. "It don't seem to imitate a wild honker much, but say, I c'n make the most unearthly sounds come out of this hollow bone you

m glimpse you at any time, or there may be serious trouble. They look like an ugly cou

you, Hugh, I'd make out to hide your bunch, because, believe me,

right away, Monkey, ne

n from view they could at the same time watch whatever took place, and enjoy the fun, if, by g

as to the advisability of forcing an entrance to the wonderful mansion, and taking up temporary or permanent quarters there. Perhaps the idea of spending

ns of impatience, believing that Monkey Stallings must surely

wall of the tower!" hissed Alec, presently. "He's managed to fin

o try and break into the house. See, that big chump has picked up a heavy rock

in a loud bang, for it would take many hundreds of like blows to do those

e believes they can find a much easier way to get inside than trying to smash the door d

couts. None of them could ever describe what it was like; indeed, it seemed to possess a character all its own, an

s Alec persisted in calling the round structure at one end of the imitation castle. Louder and louder grew the rack

the dead fowl that had possibly been stolen from some farmyard on their way up from the railroad;

sly on his home-made "goose-call" with telling effect. As they passed the spot where Hugh and the other three scouts were lying in concealment, the alarmed pair could be heard giving v

d mansion; though for several minutes afterwards the sound of frequent collisions with tre