WILL FORD
"Slow up a little, Betty. Now ahead to starboard! Reverse! I have it!"
Thus cried Mollie, who stood at the bow of the _Gem_ with a boathook in
her grasp, while the motor craft approached the rude raft on which lay
the body of an unconscious youth. Mollie had caught the hook in the edge
of the boards and the motor boat was now beside it.
"What--what are we going to do with him?" asked Amy.
"Get him aboard, of course," said Betty, shortly. She was busy making
fast a line to a projection on the raft. The _Gem_ was now drifting with
the craft containing the young man.
"We never can!" cried Grace. "Oh, perhaps he's----"
She did not say what she thought.
"We've just got to get him up here, and take him to a doctor," declared
Betty, fiercely. "He looks half-starved."
There was a moment of hesitation among the girls--a natural
hesitation--and then Betty and Mollie with an understanding look at
each other climbed from the boat to the raft. It was big and strong
enough to support much more weight; for, though it was rudely made, it
was substantial, being composed of tree trunks, and boards, bound
together with withes, forest vines, and bits of rope.
"He--he's breathing--anyhow," said Mollie, softly.
"Yes, we--we must lift him up," spoke Betty. "Come on."
They exposed the pale and drawn face of the youth on the raft. At the
sight of it Grace, who with Amy was leaning breathlessly over the side
of the boat, uttered a cry.
"It's Will!" she screamed, half-hysterically. "It's my brother Will!"
Betty and Mollie started back, and nearly let the limp body slip off the
raft.
"What--what!" cried Betty, for the figure of the youth bore no
resemblance to Will; nor did the features. But the eyes of a sister were
not to be deceived.
"It is Will!" she cried. "I have been hoping and praying all the while
that it might be he--and it is. It's Will!"
She would have gotten down to the raft had not Amy restrained her.
"I believe it is Will," said Mollie, taking a closer look. "We have
found him."
"Then let's get him aboard at once, and help him," said practical Betty.
"Amy, start that coffee. Grace, you help us! And Harry, too!"
Thus the Little Captain issued her orders.
How they got Will Ford aboard the boat the girls could not tell
afterward. But they did, with The Loon's aid, and soon he was being
given hot coffee. Slowly his senses came back, and when some warm broth
had been slowly fed to him he opened his eyes, looked wonderingly about
him, and asked hoarsely:
"Is it real--or am I dreaming again?"
"It's real, Will dear," said Grace, putting her arms about him, as he
lay in one of the bunks. "Oh, to think that we have found you again!
Where have you been, and what happened to you?"
"Where haven't I been?" he asked, smiling a little. "And what hasn't
happened to me?"
"But you're all right now," said Grace, comfortingly.
"But what in the world are you girls doing down here?" Will asked,
wonderingly. "It's like a dream. How did you come here?"
"To rescue you," replied Mollie, with a laugh.
"Really?"
"Well, almost really."
Will grew better every minute and wanted to tell his story, but the
girls insisted on waiting, except for the most important details, until
he had reached the orange grove. To satisfy him, however, they told how
they came to be in Florida.
As for The Loon, no sooner had he a sight of Will's face than he danced
about like a child, and cried:
"That's him! That's the one! He's the one I went to get help for!"
"That's right, my boy," said Will, weakly.
"I--I lost the money and note," faltered poor Harry. "But I thought you
had fooled me."
"But, after all, he was the means of saving Tom, and, in a way, you,
also," said Grace.
"Who's Tom?" asked Will.
And they told him.
That there was surprise at Orangeade when the outdoor girls arrived with
Will Ford can easily be imagined. The first thing done was to send a
telegram to Mr. Ford, apprising him that his son was found.
Then Will told his story.
The first part the girls were already familiar with--how, tiring of life
in Uncle Isaac's mill, he had determined to strike out for himself.
"Then I fell in with a plausible talker," explained Will, "and he
persuaded me he had a great scheme for making money. Well, before I knew
it I had signed some papers--foolishly. At first I was given decent
clerical work to do, and then the scheme failed, I was transferred to
another part of the State, and to another company, and in some way, by a
juggling of contracts, not knowing what I was doing, it seems that I
signed an agreement to work in a timber camp. Say, it was worse than
being in prison, and some of the fellows were prisoners, I heard. There
were one or two others like myself; but we couldn't get away.
"Then I wrote that letter to dad and threw it out of the car window.
From then on I've lived a dog's life. I've been a regular slave. Many a
time I'd have given anything to be back, even with Uncle Isaac. This has
been a lesson to me."
Will went on to tell how he had been taken from place to place with the
others until he finally was held in the Everglade swamp, and made to get
out timber from the forest.
"I thought it was all up with me then," he said. "Before that I had met
this chap," and he nodded toward The Loon. "I thought he could help me,
and he promised to. I managed to speak to him on the quiet, and gave
him what money I had managed to hide away from those slave-drivers. He
went off, promising to bring help."
"And he tried, too," said Grace. "He helped us first, though." And she
told of getting the motor boat away from the manatee.
"Just to think!" cried Will. "There he was, talking to you girls all the
while, and me only a few miles away, though I was moved later."
"I--I'm sorry," spoke The Loon.
"Oh, you couldn't help it, Harry," voiced Betty, softly. "After all, it
came out all right, and you helped a lot."
"Indeed he did," agreed Tom Osborne. "Only for him Will and I might
still be prisoners."
Will related how he had broken from the shack shortly before the
rescuers reached the Everglade camp, and how, after much suffering,
having previously cut his foot, which made him lame, and wandering about
in the woods, he had made the raft and floated down the river. What
little food he had gave out, and he had fainted from weakness and
exposure just as the girls' boat came in sight.
"But we have you back again," declared Grace.
"Yes, and you can make up your minds I'm not going to be so foolish
again," spoke her brother. "This has been a lesson to me--one I won't
forget in a hurry."
"Well, now you can stay with us and have a good time," said his sister.
"I guess you need it."
"I sure do," said Will, fervently.
On hearing Will's story Mr. Hammond and Mr. Stonington went to the
authorities again, to proceed against the unscrupulous men who had so
mistreated him.
But they had left that part of the State, and could not be traced. One
reason, Will thought, why they held him a prisoner, was because they had
violated the law in regard to the treatment of the working-prisoners,
and did not want to be reported. And the reason The Loon's description
of Will gave no clue to the girls was because of Grace's brother's
temporary lameness, and his change due to poor living and ragged
clothes.
Then came happy days. Mr. and Mrs. Ford, rejoicing over the news of
their son being found, sent word for him to stay with the girls, and
they would join him in Florida. As for the girls--Mollie, Amy and Betty
shared with Grace the fun of showing Will about the lovely place where
they had spent the winter.
The Loon found a comfortable home with one of Mr. Hammond's workers, and
made himself very useful about the orange grove. He could not do enough
for the girls, or for Will and Tom, the latter two becoming fast chums,
as they had been companions in misery.
"And to think that soon we will have to leave this lovely place," said
Grace one day, when they had come back from a long trip on the river in
the _Gem_. "It is perfect here."
"It is," agreed Mollie, "but do you know I am rather lonesome for the
sight of a snowball, or an icicle."
"Mollie Billette!" cried Amy.
"Well, I am! Too much loveliness palls on one after a bit. Of course
it's lovely here, Amy, but we are Northern girls, and one winter in the
South can't change us."
"Well, we have certainly had some strange adventures here," remarked
Betty, as she swung her boat up to the dock.
"And with all the orange blossoms, none of us has worn any yet,"
remarked Grace, laughing.
"Oh, I don't know," said Mollie, with a mischievous look at Betty. "I
think some of us have a chance. I saw Tom Osborne out in the moonlight
with you last night, Grace."
"You did not!"
"Yes, I did, and he----"
"Have a chocolate!" capitulated Grace.
And now the time has come to take leave of the outdoor girls--at least
for a time. Perhaps we may meet them again, under other circumstances.
For they are destined to have other adventures, fully as absorbing as
those I have already set down.
THE END
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the tracks; then on the Engine, as a fireman; then as engineer of the
Overland Express; and finally as Train Dispatcher.
In this line of books there is revealed the whole workings of a great
American railroad system. There are adventures in abundance--railroad
wrecks, dashes through forest fires, the pursuit of a "wildcat"
locomotive, the disappearance of a pay car with a large sum of money on
board--but there is much more than this--the intense rivalry among
railroads and railroad men, the working out of running schedules, the
getting through "on time" in spite of all obstacles, and the
manipulation of railroad securities by evil men who wish to rule or
ruin.
Books that every American boy ought to own.
RALPH, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER
Or The Mystery of the Pay Car.
RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS
Or The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer.
RALPH ON THE ENGINE
Or The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail.
RALPH OF THE ROUND HOUSE
Or Bound to Become a Railroad Man.
RALPH IN THE SWITCH TOWER
Or Clearing the Track.
12mo. Illustrated. Handsomely bound in cloth.
Price, 60 Cents per Volume. Postpaid.
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Grosset & Dunlap, -- New York
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errrors have been repaired.
Page 11, "expell" changed to "expel". (to expel all)
Page 26, "inhabitated" changed to "inhabited". (inhabited by)
Page 30, "Verly" changed to "Very". (Very likely he)
Page 53, "emegerncy" changed to "emergency". (the new emergency)
Page 60, "helplessly" changed to "helpless". (so helpless)
Page 74, repeated word "of" removed. (admiration of many)
Page 91, "caried" changed to "carried". (have carried to both)
Page 92, "crid" changed to "cried". (coming!" cried Betty)
Page 112, "chusm" changed to "chums". (and her chums)
Page 120, "af" changed to "of". (Then speak of)
Page 128, "me" changed to "men". (rough-looking men)
Page 169, "Molly" changed to "Mollie". (Mollie, hardly above)
Page 185, "cooly" changed to "coolly". (coolly said)
Page 187, "imprisonement" changed to "imprisonment". (night's
imprisonment)
Page 187, "Hammand" changed to "Hammond". (declared Mr. Hammond)
Page 199, the name "Harry" was originally printed at the end of a
paragraph. It was moved to land at the end of the sentenceto which
it belonged. (faltered poor Harry)
Three instances of "some one" changed to "someone" to conform to
rest of text. (Pages 4, 15, 137)
Ad "Enterprise Books", "incidently" changed to "incidentally".
(corporation and incidentally)