A BOY SCOUT TRICK

"Where's that fool boy going now?" asked Tommy as George, in
pursuit of the spy, dashed into the thicket.

"What did he see back here that caused him to let out a yell like
that?" asked Sandy.

"I don't believe he saw anything!" Will declared. "He just thought
he'd give us a good scare by pretending he'd bumped into a band of
Indians, or something like that."

The boys looked over the ground in the rear of the tent, and
finally Tommy came to the place where the spy had punctured the
canvas.

"Who made this hole in the tent?" he asked.

The boys gathered around the opening through which the spy had
inspected the interior of the tent, and looked at each other with
wonder expressed on their faces. Tommy was first to speak.

"George must have caught a man here looking in," he said.

"That's why he disappeared so suddenly," Will argued.

"Yes, he was chasing the Peeping Tom," Sandy agreed.

"I wish we knew the direction they took," Will mused. "The boy may