ON GUARD "You see it was this way," said Roscoe after hie had scrambled with amazing agility up to his "perch" in a tree several hundred feet distant but in full view of the stream.

Tom had climbed up after him and was looking with curious pleasure at the little kit of rations and other personal paraphernalia which hung from neighboring branches.

"How do you like my private camp?
Got Temple Camp beat, hey ?" he broke off in that erratic way of his.

"All the comforts of home.

Come on, get into your camouflage." "You don't seem the same as when you used to come up to our office from the bank downstairs--that's one sure thing," said Tom, pulling the leaves about him.
"You thought all I was good for was to jolly Margaret Ellison, huh ?" "I see now that you didn't only save my life but lots of other fellers', too," said Tom.