ncline toward the headwaters of the Greenbrier river. They traveled some distance, walking, sliding,

boys stood on an elevation lifting above the patch of timber. "If I

d. "Why, we won't have any fun hunting at all!

the cover. Dropping to the ground, so as not to attract the attention of any nati

from October fifteen to December one," he read.

Jimmie. "Who's going to know anything about it if we

s for fifty or a hundred apiece!" Teddy grinned. "I reckon we'd better eat hens,

ur vacation money! I'm going to take photographs of the West Virginia game laws. A man is about the only creature o

"The question before the house right now is how

ledge and see if I'm not right. What do we want to go down there for, anyway

ds. The boys had traveled farther from the camp than they had intended, a

e declared, as they turned to make the climb. "I neve

d downward, where a low-lying ridge jutted out of the general slope and made a small canyon

umn of smoke?" he as

thought we would be all alone up here for a time-un

wered. "There! Now do you

d skyward for only a

d. "I wonder what shut it off so quickly? It would be s

of the world, even in China and the Philippines! If it is a Scout making that In

ding from the canyon between the mountainside and the

all right!" Jimmie cried. "

e been injured in a fall, and may be starvin

ed Jimmie. "We have been gone a long time now, rem

now!" insisted Teddy. "T

that blazing stick working overtime? He's going to

" Teddy said. "I've lost t

Boy Scout. "It should embrace an arc of ninety degrees, starting at the vertical and returning to it with

the signal goes to the ground and comes back to the vertical! Now I've got it! The

" cried Jimmie, "a

eddy translated.

2," replied Jimmie.

nt on, "and I know what the

I knew it! That is L

g the flight of the blazing stick as it moved thro

ving down the slope. "The boy can't be very far off.

on't look out where we are going. I wouldn't know where

would be to climb the m

Teddy. "We'd better get a line on someth

f we get lost the moon will tell us which way t

longer, but went rattling down the slope at a speed which spoke well for their balancing powers! As they ent

eard us coming down

eply. "We brought about half the mountain down w

ave been more cautio

kely to frighten him

ew the Boy Scouts were going out to look for the prince, didn't they? We have never seen or heard anything

s may be a trap fo

us, they would go about it in just about this way,

e show ourselves," suggested Teddy. "We ought to have come down here as softly as

eam of water, a rivulet connecting with the Greenbrier river farther to the south and west. It was now quite dark,

easy reach, the boys finally turned a little angle of

ould find more than one here. Why did the Scout wig-w

ider, but attempted no

rough his field-glass, "and there are three men gathered in a huddle on the o

y we came down the slo

and, evidently, began questioning him. The watchers were too far away to hear a

der and he was dragged back to the fire and dumped dow

that means!" Teddy whis

ith in the boy!"

swer to that?"

im doing the wig-wag

threate

n beating him up for d

e rehearsal all for our benefit! There are men in the w

it all means. We can't go away and leave the little fellow without knowing

e'll get into an infirmary for the hungry! If I have to lie on this rock mu

little man with the knife

er for a long time, the men grouped together, the bo

equesting advice on the question of a nearer approa

Besides, this boy is too old to be the prince! The

o make a sneak up th

r a moment and then started to follow him. The two were not far away from the lad, and were thinking of doing something to attract his attention when a stone rolled into a

out there?" he added, turning to the darkness beyo

red Jimmie. "This is