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A STORY oF THE ARCTIC fj
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By ALLAN ARNOLD,
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Another Great Story
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[This story commenced in No. 26.5
THE Two
Schools at Oakdale ;
OR,
The Rival Students of Corrina Lake
By FRANK FORREST,
An OD
Round the World School”
Wyatt, Mem
3.
Book Cover; or,
Author 6 of” Worth
The Sreret 9 Pane 9
MaKe boa | oud Kin ing,” ** Jack Bu
at Bo, Ge t Creal "a Boy Th
Foung K e
Gotten HE ng Captain Tempert
“The Search, yorthe Sunken Ship,” ete.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE FULLERITES IN A FIX.
» GARRY WHITE was as quick as light-
ning.
is 3 The fact that he was bigh-strung
$ aniready to take offense in no w:
-prevented him from being one of the,most net.
ive boys on the
Bob Fuller had “hold of a rope which had
been carelessly left dangling over the stern of
the steamer, and was drawing himself upward.
Bill Wright was being ‘* boosted ” up. by Jac
Goodwin to the narrow. projection outside the
guard rail, and half a dozen of the Academy
wae were helping each other upin thesame
&
just then it looked as though they might-—Gen-
eral Dana, bis new patron WAS ¢ 2 ertain t een TS
- pact ti? oe ar paving a hand in this miduight
attack, ;
It was avery Serta aero Larry, Fhe
After the locomotive ‘¢ensven, if ‘ue
already shown, Colonel Fuller ‘me *? ly, dis-
eharged Mr, White from the Oakdale mathe. et
For several days things. looked black
enouy’
The Whites were poor people who Hved
from hand to mouth
'o have the earnings of the head of the fam-
ily thus suddenly cut off meant starvation for
Larry’s mother, his sister and little | brother it
something wus not immediately di
“ Colonel Fuller is » meaner Tnian than I be-
lieved could possibly exist,” groaned Mr.
White one evening two or three ays after his
discharge, “ Of course I don’t blame you, my
son, except for being so hasty. If you’d only
stopped on the ground and tried to explain
matters, all this might have been avoided. As
it is, Tm sure I don’t know what we are going
tor
They sat up half that night talking over the
situation, when Larry went to bed at last he
had, muebh against his inclination, resolved
to apply to General Dana Pp.
Now Larry did not like donanl | Dani
t heart he was a Fullerite, and bolieved the
general | to be mean and tyrannical
He would have much preferred to have noth-
"ing at all is do with him—to go West and seek
his fortune—but there was in his case other
considerations which could not be overlooked,
It is true General Dana in a burst of grati-
tude had promised to befriend the boy in re-
turn for theimporlant service he had render-
ed in saving his daughter’s life, but Larry felt
that he had had enough of the patronage of
both the rival magnates, and would have
been better satisfied, for the future, to have
noilog to do with either of them at
hen Larry rang the bell of the Dana man-
sion next morning it was with trembling hand
and quickly beating heart,
When, half an hour later, he ran down the
steps and hurried toward the lake shore to re-
turn to his home in the Fox, he felt himself
the happiest boy in all Oakdale.
He had been received by the great man-of
Hamden with much cordiality.
“Fuller is an ass,” the general had said
when Larry related his story, ‘Joe has told
me all about it, my boy, and I Coon how
deeply he has wronged you both. Look hero,
I want a smart young fellow to be engineer o:
the ‘General.’ How would you like the job?”
I'd like it first rate, sir, if it would only
pay enough,” replied Larr rry, with some hesi-
tation. “You a $00, ee, my father has lost his place
in, the | mill, a:
“What! pnd that hound discharged your fa-
ther?” roared the general. ‘* Upon my soul,
that is too contemptible for ‘Anything. I hadn't
beard of
“Its a fot sir. Until father gets work I
shall have the whole family on my hands,
" Pshaw! Nonsense! Your father has a
situation now,” spluttered General Dana. ‘ [’ll
give hima houndred dollars a month to work
for me in the Hamden Woolen Mills, Send
him right over, Larry, and as for yourself, you
shall have two dollars a day to run the engine
of the General, and a chance to attend the In-
stitute beside.”
o it was settled,
Mr. White went to work in the
woolen mill, while Larry found himself in
charge of the engine of the General .-a posi-
tlon of which he had every right to be proud.
it was the thonght of al
flashed across Larry’s mind as he beheld Bob
Fuller and his companions in the boats,
Resistence was not to be thought of.
6 was to save the general, he had not an
instant to lose,
Now Wy Larry knew that which Bob did not.
It was the fact that it had been proposed by
General Dana to use the General fhat evening
0 take all present at Mrs, Montgomery’s party
for a sail on the lake,
Even now the Institute boys were on their
way down to the little pier at which the
steamer lay, and if be could only delay mat-
ters for a moment,and make his desperate
situation known, Larry was wellaware that ho
would have assistance in plenty, and to spare,
Without wasting a second, the boy sprang
away | from the rail, and rushed for the pilot-
Wh at's he up to?” eried Bill Wright, who
came first on deck, ‘* Never thought Larry
White was a coward, to run without saying a
word—did you, Bo! b?”
“Neither he ain’t,” replied Bob, grasping
the stern rail and s swinging nimself over, while
the remaining members of the boat's crew
came tumbling up as best they could. ‘ He’s
upto some mischief, you can just bet, Lay
on deck, fellows—'twon't do to let him escape.
Larry’ * got to run the ongine, or all our fun
fled.”
* moot! toot! toot! Toot! toot! toot!
Loud and shrill founded the General’s whis-
tle upon the still nizht a:
we ther lw hat did Tr ton you?” exclaimed
Bol
Toot! toot! toot! Toot! toot! toot!
The whistle sounded again as Ed Topliffe
and the otbers came over the rail at the steam-
ér’s waist.
At the same instant from the other side of
the General—the side toward the wharf—a
the
. | wild shout was heard, and the Institute fel-
lows came tearing down the hill on the dead
“ “Great fapjacks I this, settles ns,” whis ere
ed Jack Goodwin. ‘ We'd better get bac!
In
* Not much!” shouted Bob.“ We've co
here ‘or the steamer, ae I for one mean that
we shall have ft. Around on the other
Bide, ie poyet mre it to the Danaites if they try
0 board f ~There’s, time enough yet & to cast off
the lines, and I’m the nid? fox,that
“Hey, Joe—Joo!” Larry was “heard . to
shout. Mee Be quick! Pirates! I’m boarded
by the Fullerites! Come on—come on!”
ae
sert
1 this which |" A‘th
“Confusion! This won’t dol” eried Bob,
1s the boys cashed around to the other side of
the steamer, ‘Ed, you look to casting off the
lines, T’ll tackle Larry. He understands the
engine, and I don’t—at least, 1 don’t want to
attempt torun it! He must be captured or
the jig is up.”
Bob rushed toward the pilot-house just in
time to see Larry emerging from the: door,
while Ed opliffe lea rod pon the wharf and
began easting off the line:
@ had barely time to accomplish his pur-
poss when the Danaites, with Joe at their
head, appeared on the w vhar f.
“Here! hold on ther What in thunder
are you fellows trying to bo?” yelled Joe Dana,
springing forward.
Eds aw him coming, and realized his dan-
“Without wasting’an instant he leaped back
on board the steamer, which, propelled by the
wind blowing strongly off shore, had- alrea ady
begun bo drift away from the wha
. a, bal Three roans tordoe Danal”
he yelled "as he gained the
just in time.
Even’ now the distance between the steam-
erand the wharf had become so great. tbat
any attempt on the part of the Danaites to re-
eat Ed’s experiment would have been use-
ess.
Groans, hisses and derisive shouts filled
the air as the pleamer continued to drift
further and further awa,
“Tl make you tellows for this. Pil
have you all arrested,” bavwlod Joe Dana, run-
ning up and down the wharf shouting like a
lunatic. . Come back with that steamer, will
you, Larry? Hey, Larry! what the mischief
are you about?”
As for the remainder of the Institute follows
they could do nothing but stare stupidly
he steamer was moving, and they could
not stop her,
n some One shouted out something about | -
e
boats, and all hands made a dart for Mrs.
Montgomery’s boat-bouse, which, as luck
would have it, was a good quarter ‘ot a mile
down the shore,
ok here, Ned, this won't do!” exclaimed
Sack Goodwin, “ “Some one has got to get
into the engine Where’s Bob? What
in thunder is the “fellow thinking of, I'd like
to know
“ He went on deck to capture Larry. Hasn't
he com me back?”
“No, he bast Go up and see what’ 8 the
matter with him, will you?”
Ed Topliffe started or the
As a matter of course half a boys followed
To the surprise and consternation of all, not
atrace of either {Bob Fuller or Larry White
conld he foun
they ere down in the engine room,”
suggested Bill Wright.
eama a grand ‘rush below.
They found the engine room wholly de-
torough search of every nook and cor-
aa failed to throw any light upon the mys-
on He mu st have gone overboard,” said
Jack Goodwin, hollowly, ‘Anda mighty bad
job it is, for Bob can’t swim a stroke.
Meanwhile the General had moved a long
distance away from the wharf.
‘he boys were adrift without captain, pilot,
or engines
‘s Its all Ben Spurr’s fault,” said Ed Top.
liffe, at last. “There sin’t o1 of us who
knows the first blessed thin, about an engine,
and just like as not Bob is drowned—he’s got
us all into a pretty fl
ut where was Ben
ow i for the first time the boys noticed his
abs
And prope elled by the force of the wind the
General continued to drift across the lake,
CHAPTER XV, .
LARR’ SAVES BOB FULLER'S LIFE.
UT what, meanwhile, had become of
Bob Fuller?
Ie aving the members of Company
B to take to the boats—which, most
fortunately had been made fast to the steamer
atthe time of boarding—let us follow their
eaptain and learn what had caused his disap-
pearance jost at the time when he was wanted
moarry found himself face to face with Bob
as ho he emerged [rom the door of the pilot-
He * Say ata glance that there was trouble
at ha
nd,
“See here, what do you fellows want on
board this steamer?” he demanded stiffly, “I
never thought, Bob Fuller, to see you engaged
in any such mean business as this.”
Bob turned as red as a turkey cock.
“Larry White, you are my prisoner,” he
said pompously. “*Company B has captured
the General, and we are pine to have a little
fun with her, Go down into the engine room
and be ready to start her when I give you the
he boats again, boys, without a moment’s de. bell.”
“Tshan’t do anything of the sort—do you
think I'm craz;
« Tt don’t make any difference what I thinks
~ it’s what I say that concerns you,. A tri
has no right to think, You do just as I Tel
youre you understand?”
“Joel Joel” shouted Larry, making a
deen for the rail on the side nearest to the
Wi
But Bob was too quick for him, -
8
- ,
Flinging himself upon Larry—it-whs at the
very instant that Ed Topliffe took his danger-
ous leap—he seized the yeunsy Engineer by the
waist and flung him to the
“ Do whut you’re to!” he! hissed, his tem-
per mastering him completely.- ‘ Mind now,
don’t you sing out like that again,”.
But Larry was to be cowed by no such
threats.
He was on his feet in an instant.
The next, he found himself grappling with
Bob Euler! in a rough and tumble
“Let of me, confound yout a nouted
Bob, ‘nding that his antagonist was likely to
get the best ot jhim, “Let go, unless you
Want to get hur!
In- their cout the boys bad worked their
way up to the rail on the lake side of the
steamer, and Bob, who had lost all control of
himself, now crowded Larry hard against it
and endeavored to push him over inte, the lake,
“Look out! Pook out! You'll have me
overtonka rr tried ye
“IT don’t care. Pil throw you over if you
don’tlet gomy coat! I—’
Bob’s sentence remained uncompleted, for,
at that instant the rail, which was but a flimsy
affair at best, suddenly gave way and before
either of the boys had time to realize what had
happened, they were floundering in the lake.
‘ortunately they struck clear of the boats of
the Fullerites and both immedately sunk be-
neath the surface of the
White falling, parry bad dnstinetively relin-
uished his hold upon Bub; 8 they went.
own into the water Pat t points some feet apart,
Larry was the first to rise to the surface. :
Knowing Bob as he did, he was, of course,
aware that he was unable to swim a stroke,
‘nau ‘nstant all thought of anger, all desire
for revenge, had vanished from the breast of
the generous boy, who, at the bottom of his
heart, was quite as fond of Bob Fuller as that
hot-hended youth was of him.
as a wretchedly dark ‘night.
_ It the moon or even the stars had shone It
might have been different. aS it was, Larry
could see nothing of Bob at
e could hear the groans Of the Fullerites
and the shouting of the Danaite:
ecould see the General drifting off shore
with the 108 the Oakdale
Academy Rifles "trailing after her, Means of
speedy telief for Larry, had he chosen to avail
himself of it, and swim to the nearest boat,
leaving poor Bob to his fate.
It is entirely unnecessary for us to ‘state
that earry did nothing of the sort.
Bob! he shouted. * Where
are, ae Held Sourselt quiet te in the water
hollo. T'll save you if 1 can
sibly it-was the shouting ira groaning
ot the rival students which Prevented Larry’s
ery from being heard.
At all events there was no answ
“Man overboard! Help, some one, help!”
yelled Larry, swimming frantically about,
Kooking this way and that, but seeing nothing
of his former friend,
But the wind was against him, and once
more, at the instant of their utterance, the
shouts of the students drowned his cries.
“God help him! I’m afraid he's one 1”?
Preathed Larry, hoarsely, af ‘What shall I do?
Itt gofor
Tean Bo to the shore any time,
help, job may drown, aund—ah! What was
"Lary Larry! Save me! Save me!”
t was from away off to the lelt, in the direc-
tion of the island that cry reached his ears, -
Larry leaped high up in the water, .
He thought he coul distinguish, ‘as he did
so, a dark Form moving from him at some lit-
tle distance away,
Without pausing even to call again for help,
the brave fellow, utterly regardless of any pos-
sible danger to himself, threw all the strength
he possessed into a powerful side stroke, fore-
ing himself if rapidly abead,
* Bob are you there?” he called, as
he found hinself nearing the dark objec’
Strangely enough, there wi
Yet, fu less than a moment, Larry was able
to make out the dark object to be nothing less
than Bob Fuller’s hea
The poor fellow was clinging desperately to
a flouting log.
* Bob! Why don’t you answer me? I'll be
with you in a second, Hold on! Ho! ‘d——
Great heavens! He is gone!”
ven as he shouted Bob Was seen to sud-
denty tet go his hold on the log and sink out
of sig
Benumbed by the chill of the lake water,
and frightened out of all self-control by the
peril of his situation, Bob had fainted at the
very moment he heard Taery's answering
cry.
Instinctively Larry seemed to comprehend
the situation, and without the slightest hesita-
tion sprang upward, turned a half somersault
pnd disappeared beneath the surface of the
ak
en, ® moment later, the brave fellow
came to the surface again, his Jeft hand
clutched Bob Fuller’s neck, holding the drown-
ing boy from him at arm’ ‘slength, while shouts,
ine fe for help with all the strength of
un;
‘ut for a most fortunate occurrence ft is al-
together doubtful whether Larry would have
succeeded in accomplishing his purpose, for
i), HOW recovered from his fai nting spell,
was Seeegling viciously,
Indeed was about ready to give upinde-
spair, when just at that those tha sound of
ars was hear bind him, and his ears met
an answer to his ery:
pee ee aaa
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