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The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam is the fifth volume in John Henry Goldfrap's popular Boy Scouts series of books for younger readers. In this installment, the boys have an opportunity to help the U.S. government thwart the efforts of a group of foreign spies who will stop at nothing to steal top-secret information about a cutting-edge submarine design.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 avril 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776599196
Langue	English

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THE BOY SCOUTS FOR UNCLE SAM
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JOHN HENRY GOLDFRAP

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The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam First published in 1912 Epub ISBN 978-1-77659-919-6 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77659-920-2 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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Chapter I - The Eagles at Home Chapter II - The Face at the Transom Chapter III - An Ocean Derelict Chapter IV - A Mystery of the Sea Chapter V - A Message from the Past Chapter VI - A Startling Adventure Chapter VII - Trapped by Flames Chapter VIII - A Boy Scout Signal Chapter IX - The Boys Meet a "Wolf" Chapter X - A New Recruit Chapter XI - Barton the Machinist Chapter XII - The Submarine Island Chapter XIII - Down to the Depths Chapter XIV - Facing Death Chapter XV - The Strange Flag Chapter XVI - Scouting for Uncle Sam Chapter XVII - Rob's Brave Act Chapter XVIII - The Island Hut Chapter XIX - A Chase in the Night Chapter XX - On Board a Strange Craft Chapter XXI - Off on a Sea Trail Chapter XXII - A Midnight Adventure Chapter XXIII - The Depths of Old Ocean Chapter XXIV - Rob Makes a Discovery Chapter XXV - The Dead Man's Hoard Chapter XXVI - Which Will Win? Chapter XXVII - The Endurance Run Chapter XXVIII - The Supreme Test Chapter XXIX - Into the Jaws of Death
Chapter I - The Eagles at Home
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"After all, fellows, it's good to be back home again."
The speaker, Rob Blake, leader of the Eagle Patrol of Boy Scouts, spokewith conviction. He was a "rangy," sun-burned lad of about eighteen,clear-eyed, confident and wiry. His Boy Scout training, too, had madehim resourceful beyond his years.
"Yes, and it's also good to know that we each have a good substantialsum of money in the bank as the result of the finding of the Dangerfieldfortune," agreed Merritt Crawford, his second in command, asunny-faced, good-natured looking youth a little younger than Rob andcrowned with a tousled mass of wavy brown hair.
"Well, at any rate we've had plenty to eat since we've been back,"chimed in Tubby Hopkins, a corpulent youth who owed his nickname to hisfleshiness.
"That's right, Tubby," laughed Paul Perkins, another bright-eyed young"Eagle"; "that's something we didn't always get in the Adirondacks. Ithought at one time that you'd fade away to a shadow."
"Humph! Pretty substantial sort of shadow," grinned Hiram Nelson, who,besides Paul Perkins, was the inventive genius of the Eagles.
The scene of these reminiscences was the comfortably furnished patrolroom of the Eagles, situated over the bank of the little town of Hamptonon the south shore of Long Island. Rob Blake's father, the president ofthe bank, was a patron of the Eagles, and had donated the room to theboys some time before.
Boxing gloves, foils, baseball bats and other athletic apparatus dear toa boy's heart lay scattered about the room in orderly confusion. On thewalls were diagrams of the "wig-wag code" and the "Morse codesimplified," with other illustrations of Scout activities.
But it was above the door that there was perched the particular pride ofthe Eagles' hearts—a huge American eagle, a bird fast disappearing fromits native haunts. With outstretched wings and defiant attitude it stoodthere, typifying the spirit of its young namesakes. The eagle had been apresent to the lads from Lieutenant Duvall, of the United States Army,whom they had materially aided some time before in various aerialintrigues and adventures. What these were was related in full in the"The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship."
In the first volume of this series, "The Boy Scouts of the EaglePatrol," it was told how the boys came to organize, and how theysucceeded in unravelling a kidnapping mystery, involving one of theirnumber. In the second volume, "The Boy Scouts on the Range," we followedthe boys' adventures in the far southwest. Here they encountered MoquiIndians and renegade cow-punchers. But through all their hardships andadventures they conducted themselves according to the Scout laws.
The third volume was "The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship," referred toin connection with Lieutenant Duvall. In this book a military biplaneplayed an important part, as did the theft of a series of plans of agyroscope invention of Lieutenant Duvall's, who was an all-aroundmechanical genius.
In the story that preceded the present account of the Eagle Patrol thelads found themselves in the Adirondacks on a strange mission. With acertain Major Dangerfield, a retired army officer, they searched for alost cave in which an old-time pirate, one of the Major's ancestors, hadhidden his loot when Indians threatened him. How the cave was locatedand the startling discovery made there, we have not space to describehere. But in the wildest part of the "land of woods and lakes" the boysencountered some thrilling adventures, not the least of which was Rob'sbattle with the moonshining gang that infested a lonely canyon.
From this trip they had returned not more than two weeks before thescene in the meeting-room, which we have described, took place. Bronzed,clear-eyed and alert, they were already longing for action of some sort.How soon they were to be plunged into adventures of a variety even moreexciting than any they had yet encountered they little dreamed at themoment.
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They were still laughing over the idea of the substantial Tubby's rotundform being compared to a shadow when there came a tap at the door ofthe room in which they were assembled.
"Guess that's Andy Bowles," said Rob, referring to the only member ofthe Patrol who was not present; "wonder why he's so late."
Then, in a louder voice, he cried:
"Come in, Andy."
But the voice that answered as the door was flung open was not Andy's.Instead, it was a deep, resounding bass one.
"I'm not Andy; but I'll accept the invitation."
As the owner of the voice, a tall, well-set-up man with a militarybearing, stepped into the room all the Scouts sprang erect at attention,and gave the Scout salute. Then they broke into three cheers.
"Why, Lieutenant Duvall, what are you doing here?" exclaimed Rob, comingforward.
The young officer shook hands warmly with the leader of the Boy Scouts.Then, while the others pressed closer to the lieutenant—the sameofficer who had conducted the aviation tests at the "tunnelledhouse"—he addressed Rob.
"The fact is, I came down here to see if you are willing to tackle somemore adventures," he said.
"Are we—" began Rob; but a roar from the Scouts interrupted him.
"Just you try us, Lieutenant."
"More adventures? Great stuff!"
"I'm ready right now."
"You can count on me."
The air fairly bubbled with confusion and excitement.
The Lieutenant roared with laughter.
"I do believe if you boys were told to lead a forlorn hope up to a rowof machine guns you'd do it," he exclaimed; "but all this time I've beenleaving my friend outside. May I bring him in?"
"Why ask the question?" exclaimed Rob. "This room is at the disposal ofthe United States Army at any time."
"Well, in this case it must be at the disposal of the Navy also," smiledthe officer. Then, turning his head, he called to someone outside in thehallway, "Dan, the Eagles are prepared to receive the Navy."
At the word, a stalwart young man of about Lieutenant Duvall's age,stepped into the room. He was deeply sun-burned, and had an alert,upright carriage that stamped him as belonging to Uncle Sam's service.
"Scouts of the Eagle Patrol," said Lieutenant Duvall, with becomingformality, "allow me to present to you Ensign Daniel Hargreaves, of theUnited States Navy, just now detailed on special service."
Once more came the Scout salute, and then, given with a will, the longdrawn "Kr-e-e-ee" of the Eagles.
The naval officer's eyes twinkled.
"These are Eagles that can scream with a vengeance," he exclaimed to hiscompanion.
"Yes; and they can show their talons on occasion, I can assure you,"declared Lieutenant Duvall. "But 'heave ahead,' as you say in the Navy,Dan, and put your proposition before them."
The boys greeted this announcement with wide-open eyes. Somehow or otherthey felt impressed immediately that they were on the verge of anotherseries of important adventures; that the unexpected visit of theofficers had something to do with their immediate future. And in thisthey were not the least bit out of the way, as will be seen.
Chapter II - The Face at the Transom
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"Of course what I am going to say will be held strictly confidential?"began Ensign Hargreaves, looking about him at the bright, eager faces ofthe young Eagles.
"We are Boy Scouts, sir," responded Rob proudly.
"I beg your pardon; but what I am going to say is so important to thenation that one word of it breathed abroad might cause endlesscomplications and the ruin of certain plans. I have come to see youbecause my friend, Lieutenant Duvall, told me that he did not knowanywhere in the country of a band of boys of similar resourcefulness,courage and high training."
"That's going some," whispered Tubby, behind a plump hand, to MerrittCrawford.
"I said no more than they deserved, Dan," observed Lieutenant Duvall.
"So I should imagine from what you told me about the part they played inthe matter of the biplane and the tunnelled house," responded the youngofficer. "I came to you for another reason, also," he went on revertingto the subject in hand; "I have heard that as well as being land scoutsyou are thoroughly at home on the water."
"Well," said Rob, "we've all of us been brought up here on the southshore. I gu