either father or son for a long while, it was presumed that both were dead beyond a doubt.
But they were not dead, although terribly bruised and unable to do much for themselves for a long while. The landslide threw both into the creek, and when they came to their senses they were fully a mile from the scene of the disaster. Here they fell in with a body of miners from Canada, and these men took them to a settlement still further West, where Arnold Baxter hovered between life and death for many weeks. Dan recovered more quickly.
"It's the Rovers' fault," growled Dan Baxter, when he was able to sit up. "I'll fix them yet."
He had still many plans for the future, and what some of them were will be told in the next volume of the series, to be entitled "The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; or, The Secret of the Island Cave." In this volume we will meet all of our old friends again, and also learn what was done by the Rover boys to outwit their old enemy.
Yet all went well for the present. Randolph Rover had quite recovered, so the boys' Aunt Martha was happy. Anderson Rover could now walk around again as well as ever.
"Never saw such boys in my life!" declared Martha Rover. "No matter what scrape they get into, they always come out with colors flying. God bless 'em every one!"
And to this, kind reader, let us say Amen, and bid each other good-by.
THE END.
The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes
CHAPTER I A STORM ON LAKE ERIE
CHAPTER II THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DICK
CHAPTER IV IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER V THE SAILING OF THE "PEACOCK"
CHAPTER VII THE ESCAPE OF ARNOLD BAXTER
CHAPTER VIII ON THE LAKE AGAIN
CHAPTER X THE ESCAPE FROM THE HOLD
CHAPTER XII A DINNER OF IMPORTANCE
CHAPTER XIV DICK MAKES HIS ESCAPE
CHAPTER XV WHAT THE LAME MAN KNEW
CHAPTER XVI OFF FOR NEEDLE POINT ISLAND
CHAPTER XVII A CAVE AND A SNAKE
CHAPTER XVIII COFFEE FOR THREE
CHAPTER XIX AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XX JOSIAH CRABTREE'S GAME
CHAPTER XXI TOM BRINGS ONE ENEMY TO TERMS
CHAPTER XXII THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND CAVE
CHAPTER XXIII THE BAXTERS ARE FOLLOWED
CHAPTER XXIV AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXV BEACHING THE "WELLINGTON"
CHAPTER XXVI CRABTREE JOINS THE BAXTERS
CHAPTER XXVIII THE BAXTERS TALK IT OVER
CHAPTER XXIX DORA STANHOPE APPEARS
CHAPTER XXX HOME AGAIN — CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
My Dear Boys: This volume, "The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes," is a complete story in itself, but forms the fifth volume of the Rover Boys Series for Young Americans.
When first I started this series with "The Rover Boys at School," I had no idea of extending the line beyond three or four volumes. But the second book, "The Rover Boys on the Ocean," immediately called for a third, "The Rover Boys in the Jungle," and this finished, many boys wanted to know what would happen next, and so I must needs give them "The Rover Boys Out West." Still they were not satisfied; hence the volume now in your hands.
So far we have followed the doings of Dick, Tom, and Sam at dear old Putnam Hall, with many larks and sports; then out upon the broad Atlantic in a daring chase which came pretty close to ending in sad disaster; next
