ank?" demanded Bluff,

hat big root if Frank hadn't given the signal ju

demanded Jerry, who

aken, for with a lot of motors popping away it's hard to be sure. St

repeated Will, look

calls on us for assistance. Think of it! There was the town bully, Andy Lashe

s Jed, the bound boy, you remembe

Frank, here; and last, but not least, our giving that little Joe th

, Jerry. How about that time when the wild dogs had

forget that I got out of that scrape

tree in which you found yourself caged. You didn't crawl out of

ind a fellow constantly of events that ought to be forgotten. But Frank, th

how you mount here, for it's a hard propo

own motorcycle, when all of them heard a sound i

p! h

ked at e

s he leaned his machine up against a tree, as though eager

s time of year," remarked

e been gone some mon

I might think a kid had got lost up here. Perhaps some

ith a wink toward Will; for one of the chums had gone through with just

" demanded Bluff,

ne to stay out of the rescuing party. Besides, perhaps I may get a

ed his camera, and held i

then. Come

Frank led the wa

me from this direc

rry?" and Frank turned to the chum on whose

ou're heading all rig

seem to be?" wen

f he was shouting, then it may have been several hundred yards, perhaps a

Jerry," said Fran

r, for Frank had bent his head, and se

sage. But suppose we shout occasionally? It may encourage the poor fellow, a

d up their voices and

ll, astonished when only the echoes

pped in h

uff, still having in mind a picture of a woodsman

eems to be paying more attention to our

or a lot of fools; that there isn't any one h

ll-known "popping"

ur machines! Back to the road!" shouted Jerry, turn

from making way with their machines, that they gave little heed to their steps. The consequence was that more than once

rom the rear, as he caught the sound

not have a thorough knowledge of how to work the same, fo

fat root!" gasped the perspiring Will, still hugging his p

ess was bound to be slow through the dense undergrowth, and the sooner

eir eyes immediately turned down its sinuous way to the quarte

that they would discover some mischievous school companions, who, seeing them com

ratic manner possible, moving from one side of the rough road to the other, and mounted on the sam

that, will you!

ots mean to steal our

ought to take my camera

emark, but it was cha

them, f

ance of overtaking the thieves; but those exposed roots, while not bothersome to the lum

their time was taken up with dodging the stones and other

ing rascals. The two men dared not cast a single glance behind, and consequently the only means they

f a good stout cudgel. Knowing that the chances were the affair would presently come to a

claimed Jerry as

ugitives, who were having a nerve-rack

ust be close upon them, the men endeavored to

suddenly shoot out of his saddle and take a head