Part 29 (2/2)

Will bele fils I'd like to take on the way hohed, ”and which I let slip on the way up”

”Yes,” reaun But what's the et a roll at the first town? Perhaps we raphic supplies at the station”

”Thank you for the suggestion, Jerry It was a bright thought--for you; but I e of it, and ave him a queer look Will was a fellow he could not fully understand He seeain shrewd; now as ti the bravery of a lion Jerry knew Bluff as he did his own nature, and could dispute with hilad to drop the subject before he found he had burned his fingers

Nothing ofworthy of e to secure a roll of filer came to the car with it, and Frank always supposed from that that his eccentric companionhe

In due time they arrived at the station in Centerville, where a host of relatives and friends awaited their co There was a roar of many voices as the four chums appeared in view, and our boys quickly found theed and kissed in a irls, in the confusion, kissed the brothers of their friends, as well as their own, that was not to be wondered at, and everybody seemed as happy as could be, despite these natural blunders

Finally they ed to push outside the station

”Where's Hank Brady?” called Frank aloud

”Here!” said that worthy, stepping forward froerly to the friend who had been so instruround

”hello, Hank! Here's your brother Teddy!”

In this abrupt fashi+on did he bring the two face to face Hank turned white, and stared hard at the bronzed young cowboy for aseparated; brothers were in each other's arht, Ted, to see you again! I never hoped they'd find you when I asked Mr Frank to keep on the lookout,” hat Hank was saying, as he turned a moist eye in the direction of the boy who had done sohappiness to his ho earnestly close by Probably he was telling her about the surprise she gave hi what she had done with his wonderful hunting-knife

Now that they were ho an end, the boys would not have so e in their pastimes on the lake, so that they were keen to make hay while the sun shone Consequently, they fairly haunted the lake, and the canoes were in use every day from that time on Nor were they alone in this love of the open, foreach canoe had its complement of fair ones, whose sweet voices blended with those of the four outdoor chu water

College was ahead of theether still, the Outdoor Club was not to be disbanded by any means Often in future days they expected to once hts of an outing, and recalling many of the wonderful experiences that came their way in days that were past

And there, written down in Frank's diary, or logbook, were the accounts of their first caers' settlement, at the head of the lake; the one on Wildcat Island; then the third, a the Sunset Mountains, when they solved the host; and also their wonderful cruise down a Florida river and along the border of the great Mexican Gulf; while this journey to the cattle ranch of Mr Mabie, in the wilderness of the Northwest, would complete the list

How many times, as they read of these exploits, and surveyed the splendid pictures Will had secured during their various cans, would the scenes of the happy past come before their lorious days in the times to come, but no one who knew their love for the open would dare predict that the Outdoor Club would cease to exist with the going to college of its four mee places, and perhaps it s of the four chuain they erect their tents, or it may be, paddle their canoes on other waters

Wherever they go, and in whatever line of business they ranted that the lessons learned when living this life of self-reliance in the open reatest value to The Outdoor Chums

THE END

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS SERIES

BY CAPTAIN QUINCY ALLEN