The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition

reached and they had relaxed from their tension, they were ready to go to sleep at once. First, however, preparations had to be made not only to keep guard but to keep watch also for Dic

m not near as tired as the rest of you. I'll keep watch for your f

s, if you promise to wake me at the end of tw

s give you enough shade. And, anyway, I guess

ith my face turned up to the sky," said bi

and at the end of the two-hour period he aw

d. "But, to tell you the truth, I been traveli

"I'd have been peeved

h they, too, had come and swing into the lake. At first, as only the bow of the canoe appeared, he was startled, believing Lupo's Indians already we

eally the case. Farnum realized that, with the skin kayak belonging to MacDonald now drawn safely out of sight among the bushes, beside their own canoes, Dick and Art would not have the same

with the evident intention of bringing the canoe parallel to the shore but some distance out,

r, apparently they did not know. He must warn them, not only of his presence and of help close at hand, but also of the danger behind them. The course

g his eyes and dulling his brain, Farnum had his automatic swinging in the h

o the open, was vigorously waving his hat to attract their attention. Lupo's me

, first of the aroused ca

nce took in

afety, even if they don't succeed in cutting them off," he said. "Let's get

u boys run and get the rifles, and Mr. Hampton and I will launch one of our cano

oes had swept along, Dick, who was in the stern, suddenly had thrown down his paddle, and taken up his rifle, while

reached the sand they found Lupo's men already had faced about and we

e a' so quick after paddlin'," c

congratulations were exchanged, and Dick and Art ran their canoe on shore. As soon as the first hubbub of exclamations died away, Mr. Ham

folly to believe Lupo was relinquishing the chase. They believed he would suspect Mr. Hampton and Farnum would spy on him, and was merely trying to throw them off guard by creating

on they discerned the four canoes of the half-breed

em and we had to lay hid where the trees was thickest, quite a ways off. Art and I lay there, a-strainin' our ears but without any luck when

ow comes a-paddlin' down stream like mad. As he goes by where we're a-layin' low, Art whispers to me: 'This is where Lupo turns his gang around

go far. He's lost somethin' or other and thinks it may be floatin' on the water or, maybe is layin' on shore where he touched. Anyway, that's what we though

of the canoe an' started swimmin' for the other shore. So then Art give me his rifle an' he swims out and brings i

istened in silence,

n has Lupo g

doz

looked at

this raid on you. There are eight of us, includin' these husky y

n looked t

bject long? We couldn't help you guard them. And you couldn't get twelve or thir

ld's fa

pal a man ever had-well, I see red, that's all." His head sank to his clenched h

lowly. "If we don't do something, Lupo will continue

Mr. Hampton.

t, staring meditat

ged Jack, with whom he was standing by the fire, and whi

ve," he whispered

ned to th

w far away is your

puzzled, but answe

hundred miles

Frank?" Mr. Hampt

Frank, once more turning to MacDonald

n and f

s that

f disappointment. MacD

e said. "Well, we keep this wilderness clean with a handful

reless at the Po

nald

he said. "All posts or forts, as we ca

what you're driving at now

k no

Lupo and his gang, we could call his Post by wireless an