he young man who claimed to be the son of a senator pleaded guilty to
receiving stolen arms, stolen from the government, and was sentenced to
a long term in a federal prison. When it was all over, after Major John
Ross had condescendingly admitted the great value of Ned's services,
after the government had paid the boy a large sum for his work, the five
lads, Ned, Frank, Jack, Jimmie and Pat, arranged to spend a month among
the islands in the _Manhattan_.

"Bounding from isle to isle!" Jack cried. "Lying in the boat when you
don't know whether the sea is the sky or the sky is the sea, both being
so blue!"

"Well," Jimmie said, "I'll go along to see that you don't get captured
again."

"I'd like to know whatever became of that man French," Ned said,
laughing.

"Oh, he ducked," Frank said. "I heard Captain Curtis asking about him
last night. He was just a paid thief, and jumped his parole."

"And we'll take Pat along," Jack said, "to leave signs in grass and send
up smoke signals of distress. How did you get the two columns to
working, Pat?" he added.

"The natives are lazy and didn't like to work, so I offered to bring the
wood for them and build a fire. Well, I built two fires, as you know,
and they suspected something and tied me up again."

"You're a handy Irishman, all right!" laughed Jack. "What have you done
with the Filipino Boy Scout? I saw him with you last night!".

"He's going back to Washington," was the reply. "We may meet him over
there."

On the following morning the boys would have been away in the
_Manhattan_, but that night Captain Curtis visited them and left a
sealed envelope with Ned.

"You are to open that at Portland, Oregon," he said.

Ned did not look altogether pleased when he read the papers contained in
the sealed envelope.

"There's going to be trouble up in the Northwest," he said, "and we're
going there on government service. And we're going to have aeroplanes!
Think of it!"

There was a shout, and Ned was almost buried under a collection of legs
and arms.

"Whoop--ee!" cried Jack. "Me for the aeroplanes!"

THE END.

The story of the Boy Scouts' adventures in the Northwest will be found
in the next book of the series, "Boy Scouts in the Northwest, or,
Fighting Forest Fires." Chicago, M. A. Donohue & Co.. publishers.

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