Part 11 (2/2)

Then Worry read the next one, ”A Scout is loyal He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due; his scout leader, his hoood?”

There was a slight pause

”Do I have to obey that one?” said he ”Do I have ter be loyal ter him?”

Mr Ellsworth stepped forward amid a tense silence and laid his hand on Tom's shoulder ”I think you have been loyal to your mother already, Tom,” he said in a low tone, ”as for your father,” he hesitated; ”yes, I think you must be loyal to him too There weren't any Boy Scouts when he was a boy, Toht,” said Toood?” asked the scout the ceremonial for of the law completed, he stepped back with Roy to the Silver Fox emblem

The Silver Fox patrol leader asked, ”Do you promise to stand faithful to this emblem, and to these your brother scouts of the Silver Fox Patrol?”

And then, ”Are you familiar with the patrol call which is the voice of the silver fox, and with the patrol sign, which is the head of the silver fox, and do you pron and no other so that your na all troops?”

And Tom answered, ”I proe on his breast

Tom Slade of Barrel Alley had become a Scout He could not see where the trail led, but that he had hit the right one he felt sure

CHAPTER VIII

STUNG!

”Got the linen thread?”

”Right here in the tin cup”

”All right, put the tin cup in the pint measure and the pint measure in the coffee-pot; now put the coffee-put in the kettle and the kettle in the duffel-bag Then put the duffel-bag in the corner”

”Where'll I put the corner?” laughed Tom

”There we are,” said Roy, ”all ready before the Ravens have started to pack They ought to be called the 'Snails'”

They were up at Ca of the duffel-bag in the corner of the tent was the last act of a busy day

”I'll be sorry to see Caood sport up here”

”There hasn't been ra,” said Roy ”What are we going to catch, the three-thirty?”

”I bet the Ravens won't be ready,” said one of the boys