The Call of the Beaver Patrol Part 32

Carson was swelling with rage when he stepped onto the platform of the list. He shook his fist fiercely under Will's nose, and announced that he would have him wearing handcuffs before night.

"How much reward was offered for the return of that two hundred thousand dollars?" asked the boy, without paying any attention to the angry demonstrations of the banker.

"Twenty thousand dollars!" replied Carson. "But you'll never get a cent of it. I hired a party of Boy Scouts to come here from Chicago and look into the case, but they never came near me."

"When you write to Chicago again," Will replied, with a smile as the elevator stopped at the second level, "just tell Mr. Horton that the Beaver's didn't succeed in getting the money, but that the Wolves did.

Elmer has the money in his possession right this minute!"

"Impossible!" shouted Carson.

"Hand him the money, Elmer," requested Will.

Carson s.n.a.t.c.hed the bill book as it was held out to him and began looking through the ten-thousand-dollar banknotes which it contained.

"The next time you get drunk and fall out of your machine, don't accuse every one you meet of robbing you!" Sandy cut in.

"Are you the boys who came on from Chicago?" demanded Carson.

"Sure!" replied Will.

"I guess I'm an old fool!" admitted Carson. "Here I've been roaming around about half a day accusing you boys of stealing my money, when all the time you were planning on returning it to me!"

"Do we get the reward now?" asked Will.

"Twenty thousand and expenses!" replied Carson. "I'll settle with Elmer and his chums later on!"

"It's a shame to take the money!" declared Sandy, but Will gave him a sharp punch in the back and he cut off any further remarks which he might have had in his mind.

The story ends here because the adventure ended with the finding of the money. The old tool house was deserted that night. The two hold-up men and the detective recovered after a long illness in a Pittsburgh hospital. The detective was permitted to go his way after promising to keep out of crooked detective deals in the future. He never told how or where he received his information about the lost money. The hold-up men were given long sentences in prison.

A few weeks later, when the mining company resumed operations at the Labyrinth, Tunnel Six was walled up. Mr. Carson, the president, declared that it made what few hairs he had left stand on end to think of the experiences he had endured there!

However, there are still stories about the breaker, that on dark nights, when the wind blows, and the rain falls in great sheets, there are mysterious lights floating about Tunnel Six.

Jimmie and d.i.c.k often tell exactly how these lights were made, and how they enjoyed themselves living down in the bowels of the earth, but the superst.i.tious miners still claim that the boys were not responsible for all the lights which burned there!

d.i.c.k and Jimmie also have their joke with the Beaver Patrol boys whenever they meet, declaring that if they had not finally relented and dropped the string the boys had carried into the mine for their own protection, they would still be wandering around in the Labyrinth Mine.

"And now," Will said as they settled down in their old room on Washington boulevard, "we're going to be good boys from this time on and remain in Chicago and stay at home nights!"

However, in three days, the boys were preparing for another bit of adventure, the details of which will be found in the next volume of this series ent.i.tled:

"Boy Scouts in Alaska; or, The Camp on the Glacier."

The End.

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BOY SCOUTS IN ALASKA

Or, The Camp on the Glacier

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I--UNDER SEALED ORDERS 7

II--THE PRINT OF A THUMB 14

III--A MESSAGE IN CODE 21

IV--THE LOST PLANS 28

V--FISHING IN ALASKA 35

VI--A MISSING BOY 42

VII--A LOST "BULLDOG" 49

VIII--ON THE GULF OF ALASKA 56

IX--THE CLUES WILL FOUND 63

X--IN LUCK AT LAST 70

XI--MAKING NEW PLANS 76

XII--ANOTHER LOST "BULLDOG" 83

XIII--THE BEGINNING OF THE TRAIL 89

XIV--THE LAD WITH THE "DRAG" 94

XV--A BREAK IN THE GLACIER 100

XVI--GEORGE AND SANDY CAUGHT 107