Part 12 (1/2)
”It would be just like them,” observed an-other
”And we'll have to wait for the five-fifteen”
Just then Esther Blakeley ca out fro fro and excitement, ”and he told me to tell you that if the Ravens aren't at the station not to wait for the on the three-thirty and they'll see you later at Salhed Roy ”Can you beat the Snail Patrol?”
”Hurrah for the Turtles!” shouted Westy
”I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't show up till the next day”
”Or next week,” said Tom
The Ravens were not on hand for the three-thirty next day and the Silver Foxes ithout theht,” said Roy
”Bet they're still buying fishi+ng-tackle,” said Westy
”The Also Ran Patrol,” commented Dorry Benton
”The Last Gasp Patrol,” said another boy
”The Tardy Turtles,” ventured Toeboro--you see,” said Roy ”Soht to set a fire-cracker off underneath that patrol--they're hopeless”
Salmon River Grove was about an hour out on the train Soes there The Bennetts had a pretty bungalow in the village and here, in a hammock on the wide veranda, Connover ont to loll away the idle su books about boys elt in the heavens above and in the earth beneath and in the waters under the earth They went down in submarines, these boys, and up in airshi+ps, and to the North Pole and the South Pole and the Desert of Sahara They were all Boy Scouts and it was froleaned her notions of scouting
It was a dangerous season for Connover, for in the spring his fancy softly turned to thoughts of scouting, but Mrs Bennett stood guard against these perils with a tennis racquet and a bottle of cod liver oil and a backgammon board and an automatic piano And so by hook or crook Connover was tided over the dangerous season, and allowed to read the _Dan Dreadnought Series_ as a sort of compromise
But the show place at Salnificent new estate of John Tee and hot-houses and ”No Trespassing” signs, of which latter he had the finest collection of any man in the state The latest edition of these did not say ”No Trespassing” at all, but siraded lawns seereat tur-retted structure
Mr Blakeley, Roy's father, also owned an extensive tract of woods a little way froeboro Troop was monarch of all it surveyed from the day school closed until almost the day it opened; and here Mr Ellsworth spent the happy days of a well-earned vacation, going into town occasionally as business demanded
From Salmon River Grove Station the Silver Fox Patrol had to hike it out for about three miles, and when they hit Ca it) there was the Ravens' tent pitched under the trees, and the Ravens' flag flying, and the Ravens' fire crackling away, and the Ravens the sign done in charcoal, which read,
The Follow-Afters are cordially invited to dine with the Rapid Ravens
Supper is ready and
WAITING
When Mr Ellsworth caeboro at seven o'clpck, he declined to be interviewed as to what he ht know of this affair But whatever he knew, it was evident that the whole plan was known in another quarter, for the very next day the ”ht up froe a post card addressed to Roy, which read,
”MR SMARTY: