E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Andrew Wainwright, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25002-h.htm or 25002-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/0/0/25002/25002-h/25002-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/0/0/25002/25002-h.zip) ROY BLAKELEY'S BEE-LINE HIKE by PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of Tom Slade, Boy Scout, Tom Slade at Temple Camp, Roy Blakeley, Etc. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen Published with the Approval of the Boy Scouts of America Grosset & Dunlap Publishers : : New York Made in the United States of America [Illustration: "DON'T GRAB IT YET," I SAID. "WAIT. DON'T LET GO." _Frontispiece--(Page 164)_] Copyright, 1922, by Grosset & Dunlap CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I WE LOSE A MEMBER 1 II MISSIONARY WORK 4 III A SOLEMN PLEDGE 10 IV WE START 18 V A STUMBLING BLOCK 25 VI A PROPOSITION 31 VII FAMINE 37 VIII REEL ADVENTURE 44 IX DIPLOMACY 50 X THE BEE-LINE 55 XI EATS 61 XII BLACK OR WHITE 66 XIII BANDITS AND THINGS 73 XIV THE HAUNTED WHEEL 78 XV A SCOUT IS OBSERVANT 82 XVI SUSPENSE 87 XVII THE HERO 91 XVIII ONE, TWO, THREE, GO! 95 XIX UP IN THE AIR 101 XX SEEING THINGS 105 XXI FETTERS 113 XXII INVASION 120 XXIII FOILED! 125 XXIV DARING DORA DANE 134 XXV PEE-WEE'S LOSS 139 XXVI THE SHERO 144 XXVII THE NEW SCOUT 149 XXVIII THE LEDGE 155 XXIX THE LAST HOPE 162 XXX A GOOD TURN 167 XXXI TOMBOY 171 XXXII BEE-LINES AND THINGS 176 XXXIII FROGS AND HATS 179 XXXIV A LITTLE BIT OFF THE TOP 188 XXXV LOGIC 192 XXXVI THE SIEGE 198 CHAPTER THE LAST (THANK GOODNESS) IT HASN'T GOT ANY NAME 206 ROY BLAKELEY'S BEE-LINE HIKE CHAPTER I WE LOSE A MEMBER