Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway

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Barbour Ralph Henry. Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway

TO THE READER

CHAPTER I. IN WHICH THE BIG FOUR SET OUT FOR JERICHO

CHAPTER II. IN WHICH TOMMY DELAYS PROGRESS AND THEY LOSE THEIR WAY

CHAPTER III. INTRODUCES MR. JERRY HINKLEY AND AN IMPROMPTU DINNER

CHAPTER IV. INTRODUCES MR. WILLIAM HOOPER AND AN IMPROMPTU SUPPER

CHAPTER V. DESCRIBES A SECOND ENCOUNTER WITH MR. WADE

CHAPTER VI. WITNESSES A RESCUE AND AN ADDITION TO THE PARTY

CHAPTER VII. WHEREIN BARRY DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF

CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH POVERTY CLAIMS THE FOUR

CHAPTER IX. SHOWS THEM BOTH HUNGRY AND SATISFIED

CHAPTER X. IN WHICH NELSON SEES STRANGE VISIONS

CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH JERRY TELLS HIS STORY AND DAN PROVIDES DINNER

CHAPTER XII. WITNESSES THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF “DANELLO”

CHAPTER XIII. WHEREIN THEY MEET THE WILD MAN OF THE TARTARY STEPPES

CHAPTER XIV. TOM SWIMS IN THE OCEAN AND DIPS INTO POETRY

CHAPTER XV. TELLS HOW THEY MEET THE MANNIG BASEBALL CLUB AND HOW NELSON AND BOB GET ENGAGEMENTS

CHAPTER XVI. WHEREIN NELSON AND BOB PLAY BALL AND LAURELVILLE MAKES A PROTEST

CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH A FIRE ALARM AIDS MANNIG, AND THE FOUR LEAVE HURRIEDLY

CHAPTER XVIII. TELLS OF AN ADVENTURE IN A HUT

CHAPTER XIX. TELLS OF A VOYAGE AND A SHIPWRECK

CHAPTER XX. FOLLOWS WITH A RESCUE, AND INTRODUCES FRIENDS IN NEED

CHAPTER XXI. WHEREIN TOM LOSES HIS TOOTHBRUSH AND DAN TELLS A STORY

CHAPTER XXII. WHEREIN GOOD-BYS ARE SAID, AND BARRY MAKES HIS CHOICE

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“On to Jericho!”

Dan Speede took the car steps at a bound and was out on the station platform looking eagerly about him before the other three boys had struggled through the car door. Swinging his pack to his shoulders, he waved an imaginary sword about his head and struck an attitude in which his right hand pointed determinedly toward the country road.

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The big, broad-shouldered boy with the red hair and rollicking blue eyes is Dan Speede. Dan, who hails from New York, is fifteen years old. Whereas Tom spends a good deal of his time getting into trouble himself, Dan is tireless in his efforts to get others into trouble; and he usually succeeds. For the rest, he is fond of fun, afraid of nothing, and hasn’t an ounce of meanness in him. Dan is in his senior year at St. Eustace Academy, and he, too, has his heart set on Erskine College.

The last boy of the four – and the eldest – is Bob Hethington, of Portland, Maine. Bob is sixteen – nearly seventeen – and is big, quiet-appearing, and unexcitable. He has curly black hair and eyes and is distinctly good-looking. Bob, too, is booked for Erskine.

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