“WELL DONE, DANNY!”
Meanwhile, Captain Miles and his party searched the passage in vain.
The spy had vanished. Realising what might have happened, the officer
sent back a party to go as quickly as possible to the mill, whilst he
continued to search the vault. And so the party bound for the mill met
the prisoner and his guards on the road, and returning, reported this
to Captain Miles.
Packing the four Germans and their guards into a motor lorry, and
putting the young officer in charge, he sent them to the town and
turned his attention to the necessary investigations.
Pausing at the door of the tower.
“Look here, young Wolf Cub,” he said, “you’ve done some very smart
work in discovering all this, and proved yourself _some_ detective.
You may come with me and investigate the tower. That valuable notebook
of yours will then contain the end of the story. It will be a treasure
worth keeping.”
And so Danny, in the seventh heaven of happiness, accompanied the
officer up the winding stairs.
At the top of the tower they discovered a wireless apparatus, a cage of
carrier pigeons, a powerful flashlight, and a large store of provisions.
“We knew there was something bad on,” said Captain Miles, “but not like
this! You’ve done your country a good turn, indeed, in discovering it!
Well done, Danny!”
* * * * *
That night the Troop and the Pack met at Troop Headquarters. Much
ginger beer flowed. Then the Scoutmaster blew his whistle and,
standing, on a soap box, addressed the assembled company. It was a
long speech, but everyone listened, spellbound, for he told them the
whole story of Danny’s adventures, since the first day, after the
paper-chase.
When he had done, the Troop and Pack broke into cheers.
“Order, order!” shouted the Leaders, as the Cubmaster mounted the soap
box.
“Your grasping Scoutmaster has tried to steal Danny and get him for his
Troop,” he said. “But Danny has chosen to stay with us. I must announce
that he has been elected Pack Leader, by the unanimous vote of the
Pack--and we are jolly proud of him.”
“Speech, speech!” called everyone, and someone put Danny on the soap
box.
“I wish you’d all chuck it,” he said. “I don’t deserve any praise. It
was simply ripping fun--just what I had always longed for. I’ve had
great luck, that’s all.”
* * * * *
“Your Pack Leader will need a cap several sizes larger soon,” said the
Scoutmaster to the Cubmaster, as he opened the morning paper the next
day.
Before long there was a letter of thanks from the Government, a medal,
and a cheque for £100.
But there was something Danny valued more than all the rest. It was
just a short letter of congratulations. But he took it away and read it
all by himself in the garden, and did not show it to anybody else for
quite a long time.
It was from the Chief Scout.
THE END
The White Blanket
By
Belmore Browne
Author of “The Quest of the Golden Valley,” etc.
_12^o. Illustrated. $1.25 net.
By mail, $1.35_
A sequel to _The Quest of the Golden Valley_, this time taking the
chums through the vicissitudes of an Alaskan winter.
They travel over snow-covered mountain ranges and frost-bound plateaus
to the rolling caribou mountains of the unknown interior. In their
wanderings they experience many strange adventures, and overcome
the numerous hardships that are familiar to the men of the Northern
wilderness. They trap the many fur-bearing animals, hunt the big game,
camp with the Indians, do dog-driving, snowshoeing, etc. With the
coming of spring they descend one of the wilderness rivers on a raft
and at the eleventh hour, after being wrecked in a dangerous canyon,
they discover a fabulous quartz lode, and succeed in reaching the sea
coast.
Sheridan’s Twins
By
Sidford F. Hamp
_12^o. Illustrated by Belmore Browne.
Price, $1.25; by mail, $1.35_
The “twins,” though not brothers, are of one age and have been brought
up together. They are partners, in fact, in spirit, in the stirring
adventures of frontier life that the story records. It tells how they
get their start in life by an act of service, and how clean in thought,
clear in head, with courage and brawn, they win their way, starting as
market gardeners and ending as owners of a valuable mine.
Connie Morgan with the Mounted
By
James B. Hendryx
Author of “Connie Morgan in Alaska”
_12^o. Illustrated. $1.25 net. By mail, $1.35_
It tells how “Sam Morgan’s Boy,” well known to readers of Mr.
Hendryx’s “Connie Morgan in Alaska,” daringly rescued a man who was
rushing to destruction on an ice floe and how, in recognition of his
quick-wittedness and nerve, he was made a Special Constable in the
Northwest Mounted Police, with the exceptional adventures that fell
to his lot in that perilous service. It is a story of the northern
wilderness, clean and bracing as the vigorous, untainted winds that
sweep over that region; the story of a boy who wins out against the
craft of Indians and the guile of the bad white man of the North; the
story of a boy who succeeds where men fail.
The Treasure of Mushroom Rock
A Story of Prospecting in the Rocky Mountains
By
Sidford F. Hamp
_12^o. Illustrated. $1.25 net. By mail, $1.35_
This story concerns the adventure of two boys, one American and one
English, who find themselves by mistake on a vessel bound for New
Orleans. Fearing to return to England, they journey to the mining town
of Golconda in Utah, which they reach after an adventure with train
robbers. In company with a relative of one of the boys they proceed
upon a hunting and prospecting expedition, during which they meet with
many exciting adventures, but finally succeed in securing the treasure
of Mushroom Rock. The story is bound to be of great interest to every
boy.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York London
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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.