SKINNY'S TRIUMPH And that was the triumph of Hervey Willetts, who would let nothing stand in his way.

"_Nothing!_" A hundred yards or so more and the stalking badge would have been won, and with it the Eagle award.

The bicycle that he had longed for would have been his.

The troop which in its confidence had commissioned him to win this high honor would have gone wild with joy.

Hervey Willetts would have been the only Eagle Scout at Temple Camp save Tom Slade, and, of course, Tom didn't count.
Yet, strangely enough, the only eagle that Hervey Willetts thought of now was the eagle which he had driven off--the bird of prey.