The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
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Goldfrap John Henry. The Boy Scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
CHAPTER I. TWO SCOUTS ON A MOTORBOAT
CHAPTER II. PROMPT WORK, AND A RESCUE
CHAPTER III. WHEN LUCK CAME THEIR WAY
CHAPTER IV. A STUNNING SURPRISE
CHAPTER V. HEADED WEST
CHAPTER VI. A FALSE ALARM
CHAPTER VII. ACROSS THE CONTINENT
CHAPTER VIII. A SHOCK AT LOS ANGELES
CHAPTER IX. TURNING THE TABLES ON TWO ROGUES
CHAPTER X. WITHIN THE GATES OF THE FAIR
CHAPTER XI. ROB DELIVERS THE GOODS
CHAPTER XII. THE PEOPLE OF THE “ZONE.”
CHAPTER XIII. A STRANGE MEETING IN THE AIR
CHAPTER XIV. FOUR SCOUTS IN THE WHIRL
CHAPTER XV. TUBBY IS OUT OF HIS ELEMENT
CHAPTER XVI. THE ILLUMINATED FAIRYLAND
CHAPTER XVII. PRYING FINGERS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE THIEF UNDER THE BED
CHAPTER XIX. AN ENEMY OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XX. LOTS OF EXCITEMENT
CHAPTER XXI. THE MAD DOG PANIC
CHAPTER XXII. TAKING IN THE SIGHTS OF THE FAIR
CHAPTER XXIII. HIRAM FACES THE MUSIC
CHAPTER XXIV. A BOY SCOUT’S TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXV. HOMEWARD BOUND
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Fortunately Rob Blake had wonderful presence of mind in a sudden emergency. Some boys would have been so badly shocked by what was happening near at hand, that for the time being, they must have been unable to make any move toward rendering first aid to the afflicted.
No sooner did the leader of the Eagle Patrol see that terrible outburst of fire than he started his little motor on at full speed, heading straight toward the imperiled launch.
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Somehow he liked the stranger from the start. He had shrewd, gray eyes that had been wont, no doubt, to twinkle under bushy eyebrows; but with these now missing his thin face had an almost comical appearance. Still, there was a kindly expression to be detected there, as well as the keen look of a savant. And from the way in which Professor McEwen from time to time watched Rob, it was evident that he had also conceived a great fancy to the fine, manly looking boy who seemed to be able to master a crisis so ably.
Presently they drew in at the dock, where Judge Collins was awaiting them. From the fact that the gentleman gripped a pair of marine glasses in his hand, and had an anxious look on his face, Rob jumped to the conclusion that he must have been on the lookout for the coming of the celebrated scientist from abroad, and might have witnessed the details of the accident and the rescue.
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