I. The Menace of the Law
II. In Stolen Plumage
III. The Catboat in the Squall
IV. A Landing in the Dark
V. Behind the Lighted Canvas
VI. Getting Back to the Boat
VII. On the Verge of Something
VIII. A Bargain is Struck
IX. A Challenge
X. Kingdon States a Determination
XI. Enos Quibb Again
XII. An Unexpected Difficulty
XIII. Rex Owns Up
XIV. A Lively Time
XV. What's Sauce for the Goose
XVI. White Wings
XVII. An Off-Shore Blow
XVIII. "The Happy Family"
XIX. More of Mr. Quibb
XX. Kingdon's Surprising Move
XXI. Revenge
XXII. The Boulder on the Hillside
XXIII. A Threatening Sky
XXIV. A Lucky Move
XXV. The Eight-Oared Shell
XXVI. Pence Defends Kirby
XXVII. Visitors
XXVIII. Horace Proves Himself
XXIX. Something in the Offing
XXX. Facing Defeat
XXXI. Horace Shows the Right Spirit
XXXII. In Form at Last
*AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.*
How would you like to spend a summer vacation on an uninhabited island
off the Maine coast,--not alone, of course, but in company with a few
chosen chums, all good fellows in their way and all of them ready for
any sort of sport or adventure that might be found or borrowed? Surely,
such a vacation would provide plenty of good fun, as well as some
troubles and annoyances; but no vigorous, high-spirited American boy
would mind a certain amount of inconveniences when he sets out to have a
good time on a camping trip. In fact, he looks for some unpleasant
things to happen, and he has a way of going right ahead and making the
best of everything, so that many a time a source of irritation is turned
into a spring of enjoyment and delight.
It was so with Rex Kingdon and his friends of the present story. When
they arrived at Storm Island and found another party of campers located
there, they at first were annoyed. They had understood that no one else
would be given a permit to camp on that island. Imagine their
astonishment when they discovered that the other party had deceived a
local officer into letting them remain on the island by representing
themselves to be "Rex Kingdon and friends," rightful holders of the
camping permit. Trouble? Could anything spell trouble more plainly?
But, after all, they managed to get more real fun out of it than they
could have had if they had been the only campers on Storm Island. And,
in the end, Rex wins a new recruit for Walcott Hall--and the prep.
school baseball team.
This is the fifth story of The Rex Kingdon Series. It will be followed
by the sixth and final volume of the series, which will bear the title,
"Rex Kingdon and His Chums." In that forthcoming story Rex will finish
his course at the Hall. As he regretfully bids good-by to the old
school, the reader who has faithfully followed his career since he made
his first bow in "Rex Kingdon of Ridgewood High" will have to bid
good-by to him--as regretfully, I hope.