<h3>WILL FORD</h3>
<p>"Slow up a little, Betty. Now ahead to starboard! Reverse! I have it!"</p>
<p>Thus cried Mollie, who stood at the bow of the <i>Gem</i> with a boathook in
her grasp, while the motor craft approached the rude raft on which lay
the body of an unconscious youth. Mollie had caught the hook in the edge
of the boards and the motor boat was now beside it.</p>
<p>"What—what are we going to do with him?" asked Amy.</p>
<p>"Get him aboard, of course," said Betty, shortly. She was busy making
fast a line to a projection on the raft. The <i>Gem</i> was now drifting with
the craft containing the young man.</p>
<p>"We never can!" cried Grace. "Oh, perhaps he's——"</p>
<p>She did not say what she thought.</p>
<p>"We've just got to get him up here, and take him to a doctor," declared
Betty, fiercely. "He looks half-starved."</p>
<p>There was a moment of hesitation among the girls—a natural
hesitation—and then Betty and<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</SPAN></span> Mollie with an understanding look at
each other climbed from the boat to the raft. It was big and strong
enough to support much more weight; for, though it was rudely made, it
was substantial, being composed of tree trunks, and boards, bound
together with withes, forest vines, and bits of rope.</p>
<p>"He—he's breathing—anyhow," said Mollie, softly.</p>
<p>"Yes, we—we must lift him up," spoke Betty. "Come on."</p>
<p>They exposed the pale and drawn face of the youth on the raft. At the
sight of it Grace, who with Amy was leaning breathlessly over the side
of the boat, uttered a cry.</p>
<p>"It's Will!" she screamed, half-hysterically. "It's my brother Will!"</p>
<p>Betty and Mollie started back, and nearly let the limp body slip off the
raft.</p>
<p>"What—what!" cried Betty, for the figure of the youth bore no
resemblance to Will; nor did the features. But the eyes of a sister were
not to be deceived.</p>
<p>"It is Will!" she cried. "I have been hoping and praying all the while
that it might be he—and it is. It's Will!"</p>
<p>She would have gotten down to the raft had not Amy restrained her.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"I believe it is Will," said Mollie, taking a closer look. "We have
found him."</p>
<p>"Then let's get him aboard at once, and help him," said practical Betty.
"Amy, start that coffee. Grace, you help us! And Harry, too!"</p>
<p>Thus the Little Captain issued her orders.</p>
<p>How they got Will Ford aboard the boat the girls could not tell
afterward. But they did, with The Loon's aid, and soon he was being
given hot coffee. Slowly his senses came back, and when some warm broth
had been slowly fed to him he opened his eyes, looked wonderingly about
him, and asked hoarsely:</p>
<p>"Is it real—or am I dreaming again?"</p>
<p>"It's real, Will dear," said Grace, putting her arms about him, as he
lay in one of the bunks. "Oh, to think that we have found you again!
Where have you been, and what happened to you?"</p>
<p>"Where haven't I been?" he asked, smiling a little. "And what hasn't
happened to me?"</p>
<p>"But you're all right now," said Grace, comfortingly.</p>
<p>"But what in the world are you girls doing down here?" Will asked,
wonderingly. "It's like a dream. How did you come here?"</p>
<p>"To rescue you," replied Mollie, with a laugh.</p>
<p>"Really?"<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"Well, almost really."</p>
<p>Will grew better every minute and wanted to tell his story, but the
girls insisted on waiting, except for the most important details, until
he had reached the orange grove. To satisfy him, however, they told how
they came to be in Florida.</p>
<p>As for The Loon, no sooner had he a sight of Will's face than he danced
about like a child, and cried:</p>
<p>"That's him! That's the one! He's the one I went to get help for!"</p>
<p>"That's right, my boy," said Will, weakly.</p>
<p>"I—I lost the money and note," faltered poor Harry. "But I thought you
had fooled me."</p>
<p>"But, after all, he was the means of saving Tom, and, in a way, you,
also," said Grace.</p>
<p>"Who's Tom?" asked Will.</p>
<p>And they told him.</p>
<p>That there was surprise at Orangeade when the outdoor girls arrived with
Will Ford can easily be imagined. The first thing done was to send a
telegram to Mr. Ford, apprising him that his son was found.</p>
<p>Then Will told his story.</p>
<p>The first part the girls were already familiar with—how, tiring of life
in Uncle Isaac's mill,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</SPAN></span> he had determined to strike out for himself.</p>
<p>"Then I fell in with a plausible talker," explained Will, "and he
persuaded me he had a great scheme for making money. Well, before I knew
it I had signed some papers—foolishly. At first I was given decent
clerical work to do, and then the scheme failed, I was transferred to
another part of the State, and to another company, and in some way, by a
juggling of contracts, not knowing what I was doing, it seems that I
signed an agreement to work in a timber camp. Say, it was worse than
being in prison, and some of the fellows were prisoners, I heard. There
were one or two others like myself; but we couldn't get away.</p>
<p>"Then I wrote that letter to dad and threw it out of the car window.
From then on I've lived a dog's life. I've been a regular slave. Many a
time I'd have given anything to be back, even with Uncle Isaac. This has
been a lesson to me."</p>
<p>Will went on to tell how he had been taken from place to place with the
others until he finally was held in the Everglade swamp, and made to get
out timber from the forest.</p>
<p>"I thought it was all up with me then," he said. "Before that I had met
this chap," and he nodded toward The Loon. "I thought he could help me,
and he promised to. I managed<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</SPAN></span> to speak to him on the quiet, and gave
him what money I had managed to hide away from those slave-drivers. He
went off, promising to bring help."</p>
<p>"And he tried, too," said Grace. "He helped us first, though." And she
told of getting the motor boat away from the manatee.</p>
<p>"Just to think!" cried Will. "There he was, talking to you girls all the
while, and me only a few miles away, though I was moved later."</p>
<p>"I—I'm sorry," spoke The Loon.</p>
<p>"Oh, you couldn't help it, Harry," voiced Betty, softly. "After all, it
came out all right, and you helped a lot."</p>
<p>"Indeed he did," agreed Tom Osborne. "Only for him Will and I might
still be prisoners."</p>
<p>Will related how he had broken from the shack shortly before the
rescuers reached the Everglade camp, and how, after much suffering,
having previously cut his foot, which made him lame, and wandering about
in the woods, he had made the raft and floated down the river. What
little food he had gave out, and he had fainted from weakness and
exposure just as the girls' boat came in sight.</p>
<p>"But we have you back again," declared Grace.</p>
<p>"Yes, and you can make up your minds I'm<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</SPAN></span> not going to be so foolish
again," spoke her brother. "This has been a lesson to me—one I won't
forget in a hurry."</p>
<p>"Well, now you can stay with us and have a good time," said his sister.
"I guess you need it."</p>
<p>"I sure do," said Will, fervently.</p>
<p>On hearing Will's story Mr. Hammond and Mr. Stonington went to the
authorities again, to proceed against the unscrupulous men who had so
mistreated him.</p>
<p>But they had left that part of the State, and could not be traced. One
reason, Will thought, why they held him a prisoner, was because they had
violated the law in regard to the treatment of the working-prisoners,
and did not want to be reported. And the reason The Loon's description
of Will gave no clue to the girls was because of Grace's brother's
temporary lameness, and his change due to poor living and ragged
clothes.</p>
<p>Then came happy days. Mr. and Mrs. Ford, rejoicing over the news of
their son being found, sent word for him to stay with the girls, and
they would join him in Florida. As for the girls—Mollie, Amy and Betty
shared with Grace the fun of showing Will about the lovely place where
they had spent the winter.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>The Loon found a comfortable home with one of Mr. Hammond's workers, and
made himself very useful about the orange grove. He could not do enough
for the girls, or for Will and Tom, the latter two becoming fast chums,
as they had been companions in misery.</p>
<p>"And to think that soon we will have to leave this lovely place," said
Grace one day, when they had come back from a long trip on the river in
the <i>Gem</i>. "It is perfect here."</p>
<p>"It is," agreed Mollie, "but do you know I am rather lonesome for the
sight of a snowball, or an icicle."</p>
<p>"Mollie Billette!" cried Amy.</p>
<p>"Well, I am! Too much loveliness palls on one after a bit. Of course
it's lovely here, Amy, but we are Northern girls, and one winter in the
South can't change us."</p>
<p>"Well, we have certainly had some strange adventures here," remarked
Betty, as she swung her boat up to the dock.</p>
<p>"And with all the orange blossoms, none of us has worn any yet,"
remarked Grace, laughing.</p>
<p>"Oh, I don't know," said Mollie, with a mischievous look at Betty. "I
think some of us have a chance. I saw Tom Osborne out in the moonlight
with you last night, Grace."</p>
<p>"You did not!"<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"Yes, I did, and he——"</p>
<p>"Have a chocolate!" capitulated Grace.</p>
<p>And now the time has come to take leave of the outdoor girls—at least
for a time. Perhaps we may meet them again, under other circumstances.
For they are destined to have other adventures, fully as absorbing as
those I have already set down.</p>
<h2>THE END</h2>
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MOFFAT, WILLIAM D.<br/>
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<div class='unindent'><br/>
WINFIELD, ARTHUR M.<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">BOB, THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Or, A Hero in Spite of Himself
</span></div>
<p>Relates the experiences of a poor boy who falls in with a "camera
fiend," and develops a liking for photography. After a number of
stirring adventures Bob becomes photographer for a railroad; thwarts the
plan of those who would injure the railroad corporation and <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'incidently'">incidentally</ins>
clears a mystery surrounding his parentage.</p>
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BONEHILL, CAPTAIN RALPH<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">LOST IN THE LAND OF ICE. Or, Daring Adventures Round the South Pole
</span></div>
<p>An expedition is fitted out by a rich young man and with him goes the
hero of the tale, a lad who has some knowledge of a treasure ship said
to be cast away in the land of ice. The heroes land among the wild
Indians of Patagonia and have many exciting adventures.</p>
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<h2>The Famous Rover Boys Series</h2>
<h3>By ARTHUR W. WINFIELD</h3>
<div class='center'>American Stories of American Boys and Girls<br/>
ONE MILLION COPIES ALREADY SOLD OF THIS SERIES<br/>
12mo. Cloth. Handsomely printed and illustrated.<br/>
<br/>
<b>Price, 60 Cents per volume, postpaid</b></div>
<div class='center'>
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Rover Boys Series">
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN NEW YORK</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Saving Their Father's Honor</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN THE AIR</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or From College Campus to the Clouds</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS DOWN EAST</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Struggle for the Stanhope Fortune</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS AT COLLEGE</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Right Road and the Wrong</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON TREASURE ISLE</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON THE FARM</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Last Days at Putnam Hall</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN SOUTHERN WATERS</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Deserted Steam Yacht</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINS</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON THE RIVER</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Search for the Missing Houseboat</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN CAMP</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Rivals of Pine Island</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON LAND AND SEA</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Crusoes of Seven Islands</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN THE MOUNTAINS</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or A Hunt for Fame and Fortune</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Secret of the Island Cave</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS OUT WEST</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Search for a Lost Mine</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS IN THE JUNGLE</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Stirring Adventures in Africa</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or A Chase for a Fortune</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Cadets of Putnam Hall</span></td></tr>
</table></div>
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<h2>The Putnam Hall Series</h2>
<div class='center'>Companion Stories to the Famous Rover Boys Series</div>
<h3>By ARTHUR M. WINFIELD</h3>
<p>Open-air pastimes have always been popular with boys, and should always
be encouraged. These books mingle adventure and fact, and will appeal to
every manly boy.</p>
<p>12mo. Handsomely printed and illustrated.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price 60 Cents Per Volume, Postpaid.</b></div>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL MYSTERY<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The School Chums' Strange Discovery</span></div>
<p>The particulars of the mystery and the solution of it are very
interesting reading.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL ENCAMPMENT<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Secret of the Old Mill</span></div>
<p>A story full of vim and vigor, telling what the cadets did during the
summer encampment, including a visit to a mysterious old mill, said to
be haunted. The book has a wealth of fun in it.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL REBELLION<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Rival Runaways</span></div>
<p>The boys had good reasons for running away during Captain Putnam's
absence. They had plenty of fun, and several queer adventures.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL CHAMPIONS<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Bound to Win Out</span></div>
<p>In this volume the Putnam Hall Cadets show what they can do in various
keen rivalries on the athletic field and elsewhere. There is one victory
which leads to a most unlooked-for discovery.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL CADETS<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Good Times in School and Out</span></div>
<p>The cadets are lively, flesh-and-blood fellows, bound to make friends
from the start. There are some keen rivalries, in school and out, and
something is told of a remarkable midnight feast and a hazing that had
an unlooked for ending.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
THE PUTNAM HALL RIVALS<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Fun and Sport Afloat and Ashore</span></div>
<p>It is a lively, rattling, breezy story of school life in this country
written by one who knows all about its pleasures and its perplexities,
its glorious excitements, and its chilling disappointments.</p>
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<div class='center'>GROSSET & DUNLAP — NEW YORK</div>
<hr style="width: 65%;" />
<h2>The Dorothy Chester Series</h2>
<h3>By EVELYN RAYMOND</h3>
<p>A series of stories for American girls, by one of the most popular
writers of fiction for girls' reading. The books are full of interest,
winsome and thoroughly wholesome.</p>
<p>12mo. Handsomely printed on excellent paper, and finely illustrated.
Handsomely bound in cloth, stamped in Colors.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price, 60 Cents per Volume. Postpaid.</b></div>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
DOROTHY CHESTER<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Haps and Mishaps of a Foundling</span></div>
<p>The first volume tells how Dorothy was found on the doorstep, taken in,
and how she grew to be a lovable girl of twelve; and was then carried
off by a person who held her for ransom. She made a warm friend of Jim,
the nobody; and the adventures of the pair are as interesting as they
are surprising.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>DOROTHY CHESTER AT SKYRIE</div>
<p>Shows Dorothy at her country home near the Highlands of the Hudson. Here
astonishing adventures befell her, and once again Jim, the nobody, comes
to her assistance.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Other Volumes in Preparation.</b></div>
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<h2>The Bobbsey Twins Books</h2>
<div class='center'>For Little Men and Women</div>
<h3>By LAURA LEE HOPE</h3>
<p>Copyright publications which cannot be obtained elsewhere. Books that
will charm the hearts of the little ones, and of which they never will
tire. Small 12mo. Handsomely printed and illustrated. Bound in cloth,
stamped in Colors.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price, 35 Cents per Volume. Postpaid.</b></div>
<div class='center'>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Bobbsey Twins Series">
<tr><td align='left'>THE BOBBSEY TWINS</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE</td></tr>
</table></div>
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<div class='center'>GROSSET & DUNLAP, — NEW YORK</div>
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<h2>THE DICK HAMILTON SERIES</h2>
<h3>BY HOWARD R. GARIS</h3>
<div class='center'><span class="smcap">a new line of clever tales for boys</span></div>
<hr style='width: 45%;' />
<div class='unindent'><br/>
DICK HAMILTON'S FORTUNE<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son</span></div>
<p>Dick, the son of a millionaire, has a fortune left to him by his mother.
But before he can touch the bulk of this money it is stipulated in his
mother's will that he must do certain things, in order to prove that he
is worthy of possessing such a fortune. The doings of Dick and his chums
make the liveliest kind of reading.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
DICK HAMILTON'S CADET DAYS<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son</span></div>
<p>The hero, a very rich young man, is sent to a military academy to make
his way without the use of money. A fine picture of life at an
up-to-date military academy is given, with target shooting, broadsword
exercise, trick riding, sham battles, and all. Dick proves himself a
hero in the best sense of the word.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
DICK HAMILTON'S STEAM YACHT<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers</span></div>
<p>A series of adventures while yachting in which our hero's wealth plays a
part. Dick is marooned on an island, recovers his yacht and foils the
kidnappers. The wrong young man is spirited away, Dick gives chase and
there is a surprising rescue at sea.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>
DICK HAMILTON'S FOOTBALL TEAM<br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or A Young Millionaire on the Gridiron</span></div>
<p>A very interesting account of how Dick succeeded in developing a
champion team and of the lively contests with other teams. There is also
related a number of thrilling incidents in which Dick is the central
figure.</p>
<p>Other volumes in preparation.</p>
<p>12mo. Handsomely printed and illustrated, and bound in cloth, stamped in
colors. Printed wrappers.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price, 60 Cents per volume, postpaid</b></div>
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<div class='center'>GROSSET & DUNLAP — NEW YORK</div>
<hr style="width: 65%;" />
<h2>The Flag and Frontier Series</h2>
<h3>By CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL.</h3>
<p>These bracing stories of American life, exploration and adventure should
find a place in every school and home library for the enthusiasm they
kindle in American heroism and history. The historical background is
absolutely correct. Every volume complete in itself.</p>
<p>12mo. Bound in cloth. Stamped in colors.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price, 60 Cents per Volume. Postpaid.</b></div>
<div class='unindent'><br/>WITH BOONE ON THE FRONTIER, Or The Pioneer Boys of Old Kentucky.</div>
<p>Relates the true-to-life adventures of two boys who, in company with
their folks, move westward with Daniel Boone. Contains many thrilling
scenes among the Indians and encounters with wild animals.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>PIONEER BOYS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST, Or With Lewis and Clark Across the
Rockies.</div>
<p>A splendid story describing in detail the great expedition formed under
the leadership of Lewis and Clark, and telling what was done by the
pioneer boys who were first to penetrate the wilderness of the
northwest.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>PIONEER BOYS OF THE GOLD FIELDS, Or The Nugget Hunters of '49.</div>
<p>Giving the particulars of the great rush of the gold seekers to
California in 1849. In the party making its way across the continent are
three boys who become chums, and share in no end of adventures.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>WITH CUSTER IN THE BLACK HILLS, Or A Young Scout Among the Indians.</div>
<p>Tells of the experiences of a youth who, with his parents, goes to the
Black Hills in search of gold. Custer's last battle is well described.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>BOYS OF THE FORT, Or A Young Captain's Pluck.</div>
<p>This story of stirring doings at one of our well-known forts in the Wild
West is of more than ordinary interest. Gives a good insight into army
life of to-day.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>THE YOUNG BANDMASTER, Or Concert, Stage and Battlefield.</div>
<p>The hero is a youth who becomes a cornetist in an orchestra, and works
his way up to the leadership of a brass band. He is carried off to sea
and is taken to Cuba, and while there joins a military band which
accompanies our soldiers in the attack on Santiago.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>OFF FOR HAWAII, Or The Mystery of a Great Volcano.</div>
<p>Several boys start on a tour of the Hawaiian Islands. They have heard
that there is a treasure located in the vicinity of Kilauea, the largest
active volcano in the world, and go in search of it.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY, Or Afloat in the Philippines.</div>
<p>The story of Dewey's victory in Manila Bay as it appeared to a real live
American youth who was in the navy at the time. Many adventures in
Manila and in the interior follow.</p>
<div class='unindent'><br/>WHEN SANTIAGO FELL, Or The War Adventures of Two Chums.</div>
<p>Two boys leave New York to join their parents in Cuba. The war between
Spain and the Cubans is on, and the boys are detained at Santiago, but
escape across the bay at night. Many adventures follow.</p>
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<h2>The Railroad Series</h2>
<h3>BY ALLEN CHAPMAN.</h3>
<p>Ralph Fairbanks was bound to become a railroad man, as his father had
been before him. Step by step he worked his way upward, serving first in
the Roundhouse, cleaning locomotives; then in the Switch Tower, clearing
the tracks; then on the Engine, as a fireman; then as engineer of the
Overland Express; and finally as Train Dispatcher.</p>
<p>In this line of books there is revealed the whole workings of a great
American railroad system. There are adventures in abundance—railroad
wrecks, dashes through forest fires, the pursuit of a "wildcat"
locomotive, the disappearance of a pay car with a large sum of money on
board—but there is much more than this—the intense rivalry among
railroads and railroad men, the working out of running schedules, the
getting through "on time" in spite of all obstacles, and the
manipulation of railroad securities by evil men who wish to rule or
ruin.</p>
<p>Books that every American boy ought to own.</p>
<div class='center'>
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Railroad Series">
<tr><td align='left'>RALPH, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Mystery of the Pay Car.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>RALPH ON THE ENGINE</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>RALPH OF THE ROUND HOUSE</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Bound to Become a Railroad Man.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'>RALPH IN THE SWITCH TOWER</td></tr>
<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or Clearing the Track.</span></td></tr>
</table></div>
<p>12mo. Illustrated. Handsomely bound in cloth.</p>
<div class='center'><b>Price, 60 Cents per Volume. Postpaid.</b></div>
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<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3>
<p>Obvious punctuation errors have been repaired.</p>
<p>Page 199, the name "Harry" was originally printed at the end of a paragraph.
It was moved to land at the end of the sentence to which it belonged.</p>
<p>The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections.
Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'apprear'">appear</ins>.</p>
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