HEN (HENRY) CONDIT |
| LANDY (PHILANDER) SMITH |
| |
| |
| THE EAGLE PATROL |
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| JACK ARMITAGE, Patrol Leader |
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| NAT (NATHAN) SCOTT |
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| (OTHERS TO BE ENLISTED UNTIL THIS PATROL HAS |
| REACHED ITS LEGITIMATE NUMBER) |
| |
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[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.

"Hold on, boys; here's a stick standing upright in the trail. And look,
fellows, there's a piece of nice new birch bark held fast in the cloven
end, that grips it like the jaws of a vise."

"Say, it's a message, all right."

"And from our crack-a-jack pathfinder, Elmer Chenowith, too, I warrant
you."

"What