The guard let them out, and warned them that any attempt at flight would be followed immediately by a shot.
THE RANGER BOYS OUTWIT THE TIMBER THIEVES
By
CLAUDE A. LABELLE
Author of
“The Ranger Boys to the Rescue,”
“The Ranger Boys Find the Hermit,”
“The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers,”
“The Ranger Boys and Their Reward.”
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
THE RANGER BOYS SERIES
A Series of Stories for Boys 12 to 16 Years of Age
By CLAUDE A. LABELLE
The Ranger Boys to the Rescue
The Ranger Boys Find the Hermit
The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers
The Ranger Boys Outwit the Timber Thieves
The Ranger Boys and Their Reward
Copyright, 1922
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
Made in “U. S. A.”
THE RANGER BOYS OUTWIT THE TIMBER THIEVES.
CHAPTER I
THE START OF NEW ADVENTURES
“Bangor, Bangor, all change for Portland, Bostonand way stations,” shouted the trainman.
“Here we are, boys,” shouted Garry Boone.“Wake up, Dick, let’s get our packs and rifles. Wewill be in the station in a few seconds now. My,but I’ll be glad to see Dad again. And he promisesus some real action, too. I wonder what trouble heis in. You remember he hinted at something of thesort in the letter that he wrote us at Hobart.”
“Well, we’ll know in a few minutes now, foryour father will be waiting for us at the BangorHouse. Don’t fret over what he wants, Garry, justbe glad that we have a chance to get into action ofsome kind. These past few weeks have gotten meso that I am not happy if we don’t have a fewscrapes to get in and out of,” remarked the secondof the trio of boys.
Dick Wallace, a plump, heavyset chap, yawnedand rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and then got upand stretched his cramped limbs. He had been nappingfor more than an hour.
At that moment the train drew into the stationwith a screeching of brakes, and the boys, havingdug out their knapsacks and rifles from between theseats where they had stowed them, soon were offthe train and walking briskly toward the BangorHouse.
“Why not take a car, there ought to be one alongin a minute or two,” half grumbled Dick. It mustbe explained that Dick, because of his weight, tookthe easiest method of doing anything wheneverpossible.
This does not mean that he ever shirked his duty,or that he was incapable of walking whenever hehad to. As a matter of fact, he had made long hikesin the woods without ever batting an eyelash, buthe believed in doing such things only when theywere necessary.
“Trust Dick to want a street car and somethingto eat the minute he gets to a city,” laughed Garry.
“Yes, I bet he is starving right now,” jibed PhilDurant. “All he has had to eat since lunchtime isan apple, three bananas, and I don’t know howmany bags of peanuts. If the train boy hadn’tmade a sale all the afternoon exc