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A Mystery Story
SIGN OF THE
GREEN ARROW
By
ROY J. SNELL
Reilly & Lee
Chicago
COPYRIGHT 1939
BY
REILLY & LEE
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I “This is Our Secret” 11
- II Spooky Waters 22
- III A Bright Eyed Beach-Comber 34
- IV Spies 46
- V Whispering Depths 54
- VI Real Progress! 73
- VII Mystery Singers of the Night 82
- VIII Monster of the Deep 96
- IX Dave’s Electric Gun 105
- X Little Big-Heads 115
- XI Tigers of the Sea 125
- XII Johnny’s Day Off 136
- XIII The Green Arrow Trail 150
- XIV An Important Discovery 161
- XV Adrift in the Depths 167
- XVI Voice of Drums 174
- XVII Marching on the Castle 183
- XVIII The Battle 192
- XIX On the Bottom 204
SIGN OF THE GREEN ARROW
CHAPTER I
“THIS IS OUR SECRET.”
It was midnight. Johnny Thompson pacedthe deck of the Sea Nymph alone. He wouldbe doing this until daybreak. The tropical nightwas glorious. There was a faint breeze—justenough to ripple the waters where the phosphorescentlight thrown off by a million tinycreatures rivaled the stars above.
“Spooky,” he thought, meditatively. “Outhere all alone with the night.... Natives overthere.” He faced the east, where dark greenhills loomed out of the water. Over there wasa small island. Johnny never had been there.Some time he’d get into a canoe and paddleover. Earlier in the evening he had seen a light,a white man’s light, he had thought, withoutknowing why. He—
His thoughts were interrupted by someonemoving, up forward. Or was there? He hadsupposed they all were asleep—the strange