Roy Blakeley, Pathfinder

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This is book 3 in the Roy Blakeley series. It concludes the story started in book 1: Roy Blakeley (see https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10552).

ROY BLAKELEY, PATHFINDER

by

PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH

Author of Tom Slade, Boy Scout, Tom Slade with the Colors, Tom Slade on the River, Etc.

Illustrated

Published with the Approval of The Boy Scouts of America Grosset & Dunlap Publishers :: New York Made in the United States of America Copyright, 1920, by Grosset & Dunlap.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Hello, Here I Am Again . . . . . . 1 II. An Awful Wilderness . . . . . . . 7 III. Undaunted! . . . . . . . . . . . 12 IV. Go! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 V. I Go on an Errand . . . . . . . . 20 VI. I Discover Some Tracks . . . . . . 24 VII. I Meet the Stranger . . . . . . . 28 VIII. Up a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 IX. Awful Sticky . . . . . . . . . . . 39 X. I Make a Promise . . . . . . . . . 43 XI. Seeing Is Believing . . . . . . . 46 XII. Marshal Foch . . . . . . . . . . . 52 XIII. Around The Camp-Fire . . . . . . . 58 XIV. But I Didn't Write It . . . . . . 65 XV. No! No! No! Go On! Go On! . . . . 73 XVI. The Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . 79 XVII. Appalling! Wonderful! Magnificent! 83 XVIII. On to Glory . . . . . . . . . . . 87 XIX. Jib Jab, Is He Human? . . . . . . 92 XX. The Parade . . . . . . . . . . . 96 XXI. We Visit The Side Show . . . . . . 100 XXII. Brent Gaylong . . . . . . . . . . 106 XXIII. Brent's Story . . . . . . . . . . 113 XXIV. The Light In The Woods . . . . . . 119 XXV. In The Dark . . . . . . . . . . 123 XXVI. Dorry And I And The Cricket . . . 128 XXVII. We Take Harry Into Our Confidence 133 XXVIII. In The Woods . . . . . . . . . . 139 XXIX. Jib Jab And Harry . . . . . . . . 144 XXX. Jib Jab Is Surprised . . . . . . . 149 XXXI. Jib Jab's Story . . . . . . . . . 154 XXXII. Jib Jab Turns Out To Be Human . . 158 XXXIII. We Part Company . . . . . . . . . 164 XXXIV. A Good Idea . . . . . . . . . . 168 XXXV. What I Heard On The Telephone . . 173 XXXVI. Up The Trail . . . . . . . . . . 179 XXXVII. A Voice . . . . . . . . . . 185 XXXVIII. We Fight And Run Away . . . . . . 189 XXXIX. Welcome Home . . . . . . . . . . 197 XL. Mmm-Mm-M-M! . . . . . . . . . . 203

ROY BLAKELEY, PATHFINDER

CHAPTER I

HELLO, HERE I AM AGAIN

This story is all about a hike. It starts on Bridge Street and ends on Bridge Street. Maybe you'll think it's just a street story. But that's where you'll get left. It starts at the soda fountain in Warner's Drug Store on Bridge Street in Catskill, New York, and it ends at the soda fountain in Bennett's Candy Store on Bridge Street in Bridgeboro, New Jersey. That's where I live; not in Bennett's, but in Bridgeboro. But I'm in Bennett's a lot.

Believe me, that hike was over a hundred miles long. If you rolled it up in a circle it would go around Black Lake twenty times. Black Lake would be just a spool--good night! In one place it was tied in a bowline knot, but we didn't count that. It was a good thing Westy Martin knew all about bowline knots or we'd have been lost..

Harry Donnelle said it would be all right for, me to say that we hiked all the way, except in one place where we were carried away by the scenery. Gee, that fellow had us laughing all the time. I told him that if the story wasn't about anything except just a hike, maybe it would be slow, but he said it couldn't be slow if we went a hundred miles in one book. He said more likely the book would be arrested for speeding. I should worry. "Forty miles are as many as it's safe to go in one book," he said, "and here we are rolling up a hundred. We'll bunk right into the back cover of the book, that's what we'll do." Oh boy, you would laugh if you heard that fellow talk. He's a big fellow; he's about twenty-five years old, I guess.