[Illustration: TONY’S OLD LUNCH WAGON CAME LUMBERING OVER TOWARD US.] ROY BLAKELEY LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN BY PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of TOM SLADE, BOY SCOUT, TOM SLADE AT BLACK LAKE, ROY BLAKELEY, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD L. HASTINGS PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS : : NEW YORK Made in the United States of America COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP Table of Contents LAW AND THINGS MORE THINGS (I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT) PEE-WEE STARTS THE BALL ROLLING WE TRY DIPLOMACY WE GO OVER THE GROUND SCOUT STRATEGY THE INVITATION RECONNOITERING NAPOLEON AND WATERLOO MINERVA SKYBROW TAKES COMMAND WE FIND A WAY THE GRAND DRIVE BEGINS AFTER THE BATTLE SOMETHING MISSING A SCOUT TWO—SEVEN! SUSPENSE MR. ELLSWORTH CALLS SERVICE A PROMISE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SHACK ADVENTURES OF CIGARETTE SAM THE THREE OF US THE TALK OF THE TOWN IN THE DARK ON OUR WAY “FINDINGS, KEEPINGS” THE STANDING ARMY SITTING DOWN PEE-WEE IN ACTION SLIGHT MOMENTUM BZZZZZZ WE SEPARATE ONE ENDING CEDAR THE OTHER ENDING ROY BLAKELEY, LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN CHAPTER I—LAW AND THINGS One thing, anyway, I wouldn’t say anything against the scout laws because they are good laws, that’s one sure thing. Even fellows that disobey them have to admit that they are good. If there weren’t any we couldn’t even disobey them, so gee whiz, I’m glad they are in the Handbook. That’s what they are for. I don’t mean we want to disobey them. But anyway, this is what I mean, that even fellows that disobey them ought to be glad they are there, because if they weren’t there they couldn’t disobey them. That’s what Pee-wee Harris calls logic. He says he knows a lot about logic, because his uncle has a friend whose brother is a lawyer.