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Title: Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal
or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol

Author: G. Harvey Ralphson

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BOY SCOUTS MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL

Or

Perils of the Black Bear Patrol

by

G. HARVEY RALPHSON

[Frontispiece: The Forces Finished a Brilliant Attack]

M. A. Donohue & Company
Chicago -------- New York

Copyright, 1916
M. A. Donohue & Co.
Chicago

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. AN UNWILLING RECRUIT
II. A FRIEND APPEARS
III. OUT OF THE FLAMES
IV. BURIED ALIVE
V. A GUARD IN DISGRACE
VI. A MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL
VII. A SUSPECTED SPY
VIII. FRUSTRATED PLANS
IX. ABANDONING A REGIMENT
X. AN EAGLE'S TALONS
XI. THE FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE
XII. TEMPTATIONS
XIII. A GREAT SURPRISE
XIV. BAFFLED PURSUERS
XV. A BIT OF SCIENCE
XVI. UNDER FALSE COLORS
XVII. ACCUSED
XVIII. PURSUIT
XIX. LESE MAJESTY
XX. CAPTURED
XXI. ESCAPED PRISONERS
XXII. HELD UP!
XXIII. TABLES TURNED
XXIV. A STERN CHASE
XXV. ESCAPE

Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal

Or

Perils of the Black-Bear Patrol

AN UNWILLING RECRUIT

CHAPTER I

"But I say it's not fair!" cried a red-headed lad, drawing himself up
to his full height. "You're not playing fair with us!"

"Ach, it is not so!" protested the one to whom the boy spoke. "We find
you an enemy in our city, and you must take the consequences!"

"Just because you wear an officer's uniform," retorted the boy,
beginning to lose his temper and gazing fearlessly into the pale blue
eyes of the other, "is no sign you know m