ntion, for their khaki clothes looked almost
like uniforms. Added to this was the fact that they wore forest
shoepacks, those high laced moccasins with an extra leather sole, and
felt campaign hats.

Most of those who saw them, however, after an interested look, put them
down as boys about to go on a camping trip, never dreaming that this
same trio had been through more adventures in the previous month or so,
than the average boy, or men, for that matter, has in half a dozen
years.

Even the boys, hopeful as they were of adventures, did not dream of the
stirring times that lay ahead of them in their quest of the border band
of smugglers.

The boys thoroughly enjoyed the well-cooked, well-served meal, it being
a welcome change to have someone else do their cooking for them.

"Eat up, fellows," advised Dick, who was ever ready to eat, "just two or
three more restaurant meals, and then we'll be cooking our own again
over a bed of red embers under the merry greenwood tree."

Luncheon over, the boys consulted a time-table and found they could get
a train immediately or one quite late in the afternoon for Bangor.

"What say we take the late one, and go to a movie this afternoon?"
queried Dick.

The matter was put up to Garry for a decision and as he was the leader
his word always went, though he was never arbitrary and generally talked
things over before making a real decision.

"I think we ought to take the early train. By doing that, we will get
to Bangor at five o'clock, just the time we would be leaving here,
should we take the later train. Then we can have dinner, see an early
movie, and buy what few things we need and get a good sleep, for we have
a two-day train journey. Doesn't that strike you fellows as the most
logical thing to do?" he concluded.

Put to them in this light it seemed best, so it was unanimously agreed
to start at once. They proceeded to the station where they had checked
their rifles and knapsacks on leaving the hotel that morning.

"I must get several things when we get to Bangor," remarked Phil. "You
know LeBlanc and Anderson stripped me of rifle, knife and axe that time
they left me tied to the tree."

"Yes, you'll have to, also I am going to get a compass, as I lost mine
the time I lost my way in the forest," said Garry.

"Well, all I've to get when we reach that city," announced Dick, "is
something to eat!"

The others laughed and poked fun at Dick for his appetite, for his
will