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14 In a few minutes the chauffeur got the automobile back into the road. The fat boy waved his hand to the boys until the machine turned out of sight.

"Well, who ever thought of meeting that fellow again!" laughed Frank.

"He's a comical one," said Bob.

"He asked if we remembered that night in the mountains," said Sammy. "Huh! as if we'd ever forget it."

Each one of the boys was busy for the moment thinking of that same night in the mountains. It had brought back some adventure that had made the long vacation a time of great delight to them.

Those of my young readers who have read the first book of the present series, entitled: "Fairview Boys Afloat and Ashore; Or, The Young Crusoes of Pine Island," will recall the exciting but jolly time Frank, Bob and Sammy had when the sail-boat Puff was wrecked on Pine Island.

The three boys had been allowed to make a one day's cruise on Rainbow Lake, They had, however, gotten caught in a big storm, and were marooned on Pine Island for several days.

All the time Sammy Brown's busy head was full of misers' hoards and hidden treasure. In the second book of this series, called "Fairview Boys on Eagle Mountain; Or, Sammy Brown's Treasure Hunt," Sammy induced his two loyal companions to go with him to Eagle Mountain in search of a fancied lot of treasure.

The boys had found no treasure. However, they ran across a stolen horse and got a twenty-five-dollar reward for returning it to its owner.

It was during the first night of their camping out in the mountains that they came across the fat boy, Tom Chubb.

Some school chums of his at a distant academy had made