Part 15 (2/2)
”We sure were,” was the response; ”the question now is, what is that fellow up to?”
”Some sort of mischief, just as we surmised,” was the reply ”Let's do an Indian craard the shed and see e can find out”
The next instant both boys were noiselessly wriggling their way on their stomachs toward the shed into the interior of which Barton had, by this time, vanished It was easy work to hly had both the Boy Scouts practiced the round been different, it is likely that they could have approached unheard
Right up to the very walls of the shed they wriggled their way and then, placing their eyes to a crack in the tiht of a lantern Barton had lighted they saw hie, ere long, with several rolled sheets of paper
The fellow did not appear to labor under anxiety that he was being watched, for he went boldly about his business, taking no apparent pains to screen the light or to ed from the subuished the light and glided out into the night like a half-embodied form
Merritt half leaped to his feet as he saw the fellowoff, but Rob drew his companion down into their place of conceal now by betraying our presence Let hiet a little way and we'll follow him”
”But we may lose him in the darkness,” objected Merritt
”I scarcely think so,” was the rejoinder; ”in fact, I have a pretty good idea where he is bound for”
”And where may that be?”
”The place in which he lay this afternoon to read those signals fro to !”
”By hooky! That's so, Rob What a s!
Of course, it's plain enough now that he is betraying Mr Barr by giving drawings and plans of the submarine to Mr Barr's enemies, but I didn't think he'd take so bold avery bold about it,” retorted Rob ”He is a trusted iven every opportunity to be dishonest, if it so suits hiht; but it's our duty to thwart him”
”You just bet it is, and we'll do it, too, if it's possible See, there he goes over the top of that sand dune I could see his figure silhouetted against the sky I reckon it's safe now to take after hiive the word right here Silently, now; remember he is on the outlook for some interference with his plans, and a false ”
”Don't worry about h a si like this”
”Don't be too sure it's simple,” ad postures and took after the vague shadow; ”this thing ht”
”Have you laid any plans as to what you will do if we do apprehend hi the plans to Mr Barr's enee till you coht the boys pursued their quarry as silently as two snakes At tiure would looainst the star-sprinkled sky as he topped a sand dune At length they saw hiht the lantern, which he had used in the shed, and which he still carried
This done, he swung the light twice across his body, after the fashi+on of a brake a train to come ahead
Instantly, out of the darkness, flashed an answering beacon--a red light The boys clasped each other's ar adventure they did not doubt But in each lad's heart was a firht, they would do their duty by Uncle Saht shown from the other island?” whispered Merritt