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[Illustration: To the amazement of everybody, he was trying to steal
home.--Page 257.]

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                              *REX KINGDON
                            ON STORM ISLAND*


                           By GORDON BRADDOCK



                               AUTHOR OF
          "Rex Kingdon of Ridgewood High," "Rex Kingdon in the
            the North Woods," "Rex Kingdon at Walcott Hall,"
                   "Rex Kingdon Behind the Bat," etc.

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                           A. L. BURT COMPANY
                          Publishers New York

                          Printed in U. S. A.




                            COPYRIGHT, 1917,
                                   BY
                            HURST & COMPANY

                          Printed in U. S. A.




                               *CONTENTS*

CHAPTER

      I. The Menace of the Law
     II. In Stolen Plumage
    III. The Catboat in the Squall
     IV. A Landing in the Dark
      V. Behind the Lighted Canvas
     VI. Getting Back to the Boat
    VII. On the Verge of Something
   VIII. A Bargain is Struck
     IX. A Challenge
      X. Kingdon States a Determination
     XI. Enos Quibb Again
    XII. An Unexpected Difficulty
   XIII. Rex Owns Up
    XIV. A Lively Time
     XV. What's Sauce for the Goose
    XVI. White Wings
   XVII. An Off-Shore Blow
  XVIII. "The Happy Family"
    XIX. More of Mr. Quibb
     XX. Kingdon's Surprising Move
    XXI. Revenge
   XXII. The Boulder on the Hillside
  XXIII. A Threatening Sky
   XXIV. A Lucky Move
    XXV. The Eight-Oared Shell
   XXVI. Pence Defends Kirby
  XXVII. Visitors
 XXVIII. Horace Proves Himself
   XXIX. Something in the Offing
    XXX. Facing Defeat
   XXXI. Horace Shows the Right Spirit
  XXXII. In Form at Last




                          *AUTHOR'S FOREWORD.*


How would you like to spend a summer vacation on an uninhabited island
off the Maine coast,--not alone, of course, but in company with a few
chosen chums, all good fellows in their way and all of them ready for
any sort of sport or adventure that might be found or borrowed? Surely,
such a vacation would provide plenty of good fun, as well as some
troubles and annoyances; but no vigorous, high-spirited American boy
would mind a certain amount of inconveniences when he sets out to have a
good time on a camping trip.  In fact, he looks for some unpleasant
things to happen, and he has a way of going right ahead and making the
best of everything, so that many a time a source of irritation is turned
into a spring of enjoyment and delight.

It was so with Rex Kingdon and his friends of the present story.  When
they arrived at Storm Island and found another party of campers located
there, they at first were annoyed. They had understood that no one else
would be given a permit to camp on that island.  Imagine their
astonishment when they discovered that the other party had deceived a
local officer into letting them remain on the island by representing
themselves to be "Rex Kingdon and friends," rightful holders of the
camping permit. Trouble?  Could anything spell trouble more plainly?
But, after all, they managed to get more real fun out of it than they
could have had if they had been the only campers on Storm Island.  And,
in the end, Rex wins a new recruit for Walcott Hall--and the prep.
school baseball team.

This is the fifth story of The Rex Kingdon Series.  It will be followed
by the sixth and final volume of the series, which will bear the title,
"Rex Kingdon and His Chums."  In that forthcoming story Rex will finish
his course at the Hall.  As he regretfully bids good-by to the old
school, the reader who has faithfully followed his career since he made
his first bow in "Rex Kingdon of Ridgewood High" will have to bid
good-by to him--as regretfully, I hope.

GORDON BRADDOCK.

New York, February 14, 1917.




                     *Rex Kingdon on Storm Island.*



                              *CHAPTER I.*

                        *THE MENACE OF THE LAW.*


"What's that noise?  Say, Pudge, wake up and take a look."

"Hey?  What noise?" stammered Pudge MacComber, startled out of serene
slumber.

"Hear it? 