eat hunter and traveler. Then the lad came
back to Oak Hall, as related in "Dave Porter's Return to School." He
next went in quest of his father, as told in "Dave Porter in the Far
North."

"Now they can't say that I'm a 'poorhouse nobody,'" he told his chums,
after having met his father. And then, with a light heart, he came back
to boarding-school once again, as related in "Dave Porter and His
Classmates." Here he made more friends than ever, but likewise some
bitter enemies, including one Link Merwell, the son of a ranch-owner of
the West. Merwell did all he could to cause Dave trouble, but in the end
was exposed and had to leave Oak Hall.

"I hope I never fall in with Link Merwell again," Dave said to his
school chums, but this was not to be. Dave had not only found his father
and an uncle, but he had also found a sister, Laura Porter, who was
very dear to him. Laura had a young lady friend, named Belle Endicott,
who lived in the Far West, and through this friend Dave and his chums,
and also Laura, as well as Jessie Wadsworth, received an invitation to
spend some time at the Endicott place. They had a great deal of fun and
not a few adventures, all of which have been set down in "Dave Porter at
Star Ranch." Not far from the Endicott place was the home of Link
Merwell, and that young man, as before, tried to make trouble, but his
efforts were frustrated and he left home under a cloud.

From the ranch Dave and his chums returned again to Oak Hall, as
recorded in "Dave Porter and His Rivals." Then came the Christmas
Holidays, and Dave went back to Crumville, where he and his folks were
now living with the Wadsworth family in their elegant mansion on the
outskirts of the town. Directly after Christmas there was a thrilling
jewelry robbery at Mr. Wadsworth's factory. It was Dave, aided by some
of his chums, who got on the track of the robbers and trailed them to
the South and then to sea, as related in "Dave Porter on Cave Island."

When our hero and his chums went back to Oak Hall they imagined that
their adventures were at an end. But soon came in news of a strange man
who was terrorizing the neighborhood. Some very unusual things
happened, including an attempt to blow up a neighboring hotel. Some of
the students were thought guilty, and fearing arrest, they fled in
terror, as told of in "Dave Porter and the Runaways." Dave was not one
of those who ran away, but he did go after the others, and made them
come back t