IV. A MYSTERY OF THE SEA 36

V. A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST 46

VI. A STARTLING ADVENTURE 53

VII. TRAPPED BY FLAMES 61

VIII. A BOY SCOUT SIGNAL 69

IX. THE BOYS MEET A "WOLF" 76

X. A NEW RECRUIT 84

XI. BARTON THE MACHINIST 95

XII. THE SUBMARINE ISLAND 102

XIII. DOWN TO THE DEPTHS 112

XIV. FACING DEATH 120

XV. THE STRANGE FLAG 129

XVI. SCOUTING FOR UNCLE SAM 138

XVII. ROB'S BRAVE ACT 146

XVIII. THE ISLAND HUT 154

XIX. A CHASE IN THE NIGHT 163

XX. ON BOARD A STRANGE CRAFT 173

XXI. OFF ON A SEA TRAIL 182

XXII. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE 190

XXIII. THE DEPTHS OF OLD OCEAN 198

XXIV. ROB MAKES A DISCOVERY 209

XXV. THE DEAD MAN'S HOARD 217

XXVI. WHICH WILL WIN? 228

XXVII. THE ENDURANCE RUN 238

XXVIII. THE SUPREME TEST 248

XXIX. INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH 263

The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam

CHAPTER I.

THE EAGLES AT HOME.

"After all, fellows, it's good to be back home again."

The speaker, Rob Blake, leader of the Eagle Patrol of Boy Scouts, spoke
with conviction. He was a "rangy," sun-burned lad of about eighteen,
clear-eyed, confident and wiry. His Boy Scout training, too, had made
him resourceful beyond his years.

"Yes, and it's also good to know that we each have a good substantial
sum of money in the bank as the result of the finding of the Dangerfield
fortune," agreed Merritt Crawford, his second in command, a
sunny-faced, good-natured looking youth a little younger than Rob and
crowned 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 his
fleshiness.

"That's right, Tubby," laughed Paul Perkins, another bright-eyed young
"Eagle"; "that's something we didn't always get in the Adirondacks. I
thought at one time that you'd fade away to a shadow."

"Humph! Pretty substantial sor