CHAPTER XII
“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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