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Updated: June 9, 2025
When two weeks had passed since that night with George Stormways and his family, they were down in the neighborhood made famous during the Civil War; for Vicksburg lay not more than ten miles ahead.
Really, I don't wonder he is bitter about it." "But you had something in mind, father, when you said that you met him?" Mr. Stormways looked at Jack. "That is true, my son; and do you know, the first thought that came to me was one of pleasure to feel absolutely sure no boy of mine would disgrace himself in plaguing an old man who had never harmed him."
But wishing to be posted when I put the question I went over the river to Aldine to-day, and saw some of the boys there who belong to the Scouts. They made me more anxious than ever to start a patrol in our home town." "But I've seen something about a troop?" remarked Jack Stormways, who, Paul thought, seemed unusually sober for a boy ordinarily light-hearted.
Stallings had suddenly become more deeply interested in the personality of the stranger, though he could not give even a guess just why that should be so. "George Stormways," repeated Maurice, slowly and deliberately, as though he wanted the other to fully understand. "Why, yes he gits his mail hyah, sah; leastways, he allers used tuh come hyah tuh trade, when he had any money.
"How is it, Paul?" asked Jack Stormways, as he ran across the other in making his rounds. "About at the end. The boys are putting the old tools back where they found them; and then we can go home. It's the best half hour's work any of us have done for a good while, I tell you, Jack." "Some of the boys don't seem to think it quite so funny now as when they started in.
Paul and his chum walked on together, until reaching the first home they said good night. But neither again brought up that subject which had been worrying Jack Stormways for so long a time. If Paul had conceived any sort of an idea in connection with the strange disappearance of the old coins, he kept it to himself.
Don't pay any attention to me, if I look cross once in a while. That'll be when it's got me gripped fast, and I'm tryin' to guess." "I've known you to do the same when you had one of those puzzles, trying to work it," chuckled Jack Stormways. "Fact is, I remember that once you told me you sat up till two o'clock in the morning over that ring business."
"Go and see his shadow, Ward Kenwood, and get him to put up the money to start the ball rolling. My word for it that inside of a week there'll be two rival Boy Scout troops in little old Stanhope," remarked Jack Stormways. "Say, that would be great, if the other crowd only acted on the square," ventured William. "We could have all sorts of contests between us.
1 Paul Morrison, patrol leader, and also assistant scout master. 2 Jack Stormways. 3 Bobolink, the official bugler. 4 Bluff Shipley, the drummer. 5 Nuthin, whose real name was Albert Cypher. 6 William Carberry, one of the twins. 7 Wallace Carberry, the other. 8 Tom Betts.
It seemed as though they had been away from home a long time after that one night spent with the Stormways. Thad remarked how natural it was to get breakfast again; and Maurice said something along the same lines as he went ashore to gather up a supply of firewood for future use. Again they moved with the current, always heading south.
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