get that in the morning, and I have some
ideas of what we should buy. Of course, this time we won't have to
supply ourselves with enough food for a month, as we will probably make
the town of Hobart our base of supplies. However, my idea is to get a
very small compact bundle of concentrated foods, such as bar chocolate
and highly concentrated soup. This, with a small portion of tea and
coffee, can be packed into a very small bundle, and yet were one lost in
the woods, he would find that such a supply would last him more than a
week."

Bidding the old gunsmith goodnight, they returned to the hotel, meeting
Lieut. Murphy on the way. "Sure boys, I hope you will forget everything
that has happened this evening. It was only last week that I picked up
three boys who were going up into the woods to shoot Indians, and I
didn't know but that you might be tarred with the same brush."

"Don't let that bother you at all, Lieutenant. I suppose you have to do
your duty just as you see it, so we will forget about it, and say
goodnight."

They reached the Penobscot Exchange, and getting their key from the
clerk, went directly to their room. As Garry popped open the door, he
uttered a shout of surprise, for there, making himself comfortable in an
easy chair, sat Nate Webster.

CHAPTER IV.

THE TORN MAP.

"Well," said Nate, "it seems to me you fellows keep rather late hours. I
have been waiting for you upwards of two hours. Where have you been
keeping yourself? I calculate likely as not you fellows have been to a
theatre."

"Half of your guess is correct," said Garry, with a laugh, "but since
leaving the show, we have had a wild time. First place, we found a dead
man, and second place, we got arrested."

"'Sho' now, you don't say so. What have you fellows been doing that got
you in the grip of the law?"

"Why, as to that, Nate, I can hardly say myself," said Garry. "Things
came so thick and fast, that I haven't yet found out what it was all
about, so I think now would be as good a time as any for each one of us
to tell his story, and just for the sake of having things in order, and
because I have so little to tell, I will take the first turn. When we
went into the old abandoned boarding house, for such as I discovered it
to be, I searched the entire lower floor and the cellar, and finding
nothing, was about to make my way up the stairs, when I leaned too heavy
against the balustrade, and in another moment I found mys