The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players

come out; and is the c

. They looked at Billy poking his head out from amidst the folds of his capacious red-and-black striped blanket, and laughed, for someho

ch as you please. Hurry up a little! Alec here was just suggesting that as the morning look

the blanket aside an

you the idea isn't half bad either. Dining in this musty old room seems too much as if we were still at home, you know. Nothing like being under the trees when you'r

also awake and fixing himself to d

was looked upon only as a little incident, and no one dreamed that afterwar

ake the scouts long to discover a very good location for a te

e, half a mile, perhaps, away from the castle, to spend the night in. Like Billy here, I don't fancy sleep

quick to seize

he Stallings boy, "because we've got to mak

me, I've seen all I want of the place. It makes me feel sad, because I can't help thinking of what happened up here so long ago. It w

while they discussed the morning meal with the eagerness that boys' he

could hear somebody laughing away off in the distance; but say, I only pulled my head further under my blanket, and we

awe as the story proceeded, and seeing this, Alec did his best to keep up the interest at fever heat to the point where H

room was the place where the tragedy happened, and that Hugh had watched it all being repeated over again. Owls, hey? Well, they

ntroduced to Hugh's pets, if they haven't vamoosed the ranch. I always did like to watch owls stare at you with their big yellow

t have wished, for most of the owls and bats went scurrying forth through the slits in the wall as soon as the door was opened, despi

not take a picture of the whole outfit; though

es I want to make of the southeastern side of the castle,"

not that same family of owls has been responsible for a lot of that silly talk about this place be

ry well for you to talk so bravely when the sun's shining overhead; but everybody knows how different things look and seem at midnigh

t proven his abilities in this line, he was apparently justified

idered would lend additional enchantment to the views. "I ought to consider myself mighty lucky to be presented with such a dandy camera as this. I've made sure to fetch my dayli

isfaction, "there isn't any sign of those two hoboes turni

when you tooted that goose-call. Long before now that brace of tramps has struck the railroad t

ly taken. Alec seemed sati

You never know what may happen when you're taking pictures. Something is apt to come along t

d Arthur. "I guess you must believe in the old saying that

oming. I've been there myself, and ought to know what it means to go hungry just because you've been careless.

connected with the one absorbing idea of supply and demand. By this time these good chu

Stallings, who liked to investigate better than anything else, except in an old mansio

and look for that place where we want to make our camp for

te this afternoon if the weather turned out bad, and a storm threatene

hat bold assertion had long been looked up to as an authority on the subject of changes of the weather,

clean up the grounds surrounding the wonderful "castle" after its abandonment, Some ten years or so before, of necessity they had gone back to their original, wild conditio

gs much more to their way of looking at it. Indeed, with the stately forest trees rising up all around them, and shutting

gs, were dispatched back to carry their personal belongings to the new site. Alec was anxious to get to

a mile away from the deserted mansion. The boys believed they could already call their mission a success; and

ime, for he happened to have remarkable hearing. "

claimed Billy looking startled. "You know they

observed Alec, pouncing on just such a stout s

worst, for I can see them through the bushes there. They know we're

two men dressed in gray uniforms and carrying guns s

try to run, or it will be the worse for you. We've tr