Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot   By: Alan Douglas

COMPLETE ROSTER, WHEN THE PATROLS WERE FILLED, OF THE HICKORY RIDGE TROOP OF BOY SCOUTS MR. RODERIC GARRABRANT, SCOUT MASTER THE WOLF PATROL ELMER CHENOWITH, Patrol Leader, and also Assistant Scout Master MARK CUMMINGS TED (THEODORE) BURGOYNE TOBY (TOBIAS) ELLSWORTH JONES "LIL ARTHA" (ARTHUR) STANSBURY CHATZ (CHARLES) MAXFIELD PHIL (PHILIP) DALE GEORGE ROBBINS THE BEAVER PATROL MATTY (MATTHEW) EGGLESTON, Patrol Leader "RED" (OSCAR) HUGGINS TY (TYRUS) COLLINS JASPER MERRIWEATHER TOM CROPSEY LARRY (LAWRENCE) BILLINGS HEN (HENRY) CONDIT LANDY (PHILANDER) SMITH THE EAGLE PATROL JACK ARMITAGE, Patrol Leader NAT (NATHAN) SCOTT (OTHERS TO BE ENLISTED UNTIL THIS PATROL HAS REACHED ITS LEGITIMATE NUMBER)

[Illustration: "Elmer tries to tell us he is pursuing the two who headed northwest."]

THE HICKORY RIDGE BOY SCOUTS

PATHFINDER OR THE MISSING TENDERFOOT

BY

CAPTAIN ALAN DOUGLAS SCOUT MASTER

THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE BIRCH BARK MESSAGE 17

II. AT THE HAUNTED MILL 25

III. THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF NAT 34

IV. THE SEARCH FOR A CLEW 42

V. THE TRAIL GROWS WARMER 50

VI. HUNTING FOR THE MISSING SCOUT 58

VII. THE AMBITION OF LANDY 67

VIII. READING THE SIGNS 75

IX. SETTING THE TRAP 84

X. HOW THE TRAP WORKED 93

XI. RUN DOWN 101

XII. THE LANGUAGE OF SIGNS 110

XIII. THE CALL OF THE WOLF 119

XIV. THE NEED OF A PATHFINDER 127

XV. RESCUED CONCLUSION 136

PATHFINDER OR THE MISSING TENDERFOOT

THE HICKORY RIDGE BOY SCOUTS

PATHFINDER;

OR,

THE MISSING TENDERFOOT.

CHAPTER I.

THE BIRCH BARK MESSAGE.