Little Jim grabbed up his stick and Poetry’s grip tightened on his scout knife handle till the knuckles on his hand turned white, he was holding it so tight. “Quick!” I said to all of us, “let’s get out of here with what we’ve got, or it’ll be too late!” I grabbed up the gunny sack, lugged it toward the exit, all of us getting there at about the same time. Boy oh boy, if only we could get out and make a dive for the woods and start to camp without being seen. But as I said, this story is already finished--and what happened next is the beginning of another exciting adventure. Even while we were climbing out of that icehouse I just knew that long before we got home with our ransom money, there’d be some dangerous excitement that would take not only a lot of quick thinking on the part of every one of us, but some quick _acting_ as well. ’Cause the outboard motor was roaring toward our shore like whoever was driving it was in a terrible hurry to stop us from doing whatever we were doing. I hope I’ll have time right away, to tell you this last story of our adventures in the North Woods. THE END When the Gang decided to play Robinson Crusoe up in the North Woods they had no idea that they would run into such exciting adventures. They discovered honest-to-goodness treasure and, of all places, in ... but read the story, =The Sugar creek Gang Digs for Treasure=. [Illustration] Be sure to read all the books in the VKP Series. They are: The Sugar Creek Gang Goes North Adventure in an Indian Cemetery The Sugar Creek Gang Digs for Treasure North Woods Manhunt The Haunted House at Sugar Creek Lost in a Sugar Creek Blizzard The Sugar Creek Gang on the Mexican Border The Green Tent Mystery at Sugar Creek 10,000 Minutes at Sugar Creek The Trap Line Thief at Sugar Creek Blue Cow at Sugar Creek $1.00 each [Illustration] Published and Distributed exclusively by _Van Kampen Press_ 222 E. Willow Ave. Wheaton, Illinois Transcriber’s Note: Punctuation has been standardised. Spelling and hyphenation have been retained as published in the original publication except as follows: Page 8 to the gunwhale of the boat _changed to_ to the gunwale of the boat Page 12 The kidnapped stole ’em _changed to_ The kidnapper stole ’em Page 15 Act like your scared to death _changed to_ Act like you’re scared to death Page 16 heard a scufflling behind _changed to_ heard a scuffling behind Page 18 I said to dragonfly _changed to_ I said to Dragonfly Page 29 belived it too _changed to_ believed it too Page 36 looked startled, antd I knew _changed to_ looked startled, and I knew Page 53 he’s just like may dad was _changed to_ he’s just like my dad was Page 56 and I was even gladded _changed to_ and I was even gladder Page 59 and it was a handerchief _changed to_ and it was a handkerchief