The afternoon express from the north steamed into the Bayport station to the usual accompanying uproar of clanging bells from the lunch room, shouting redcaps, and a bellowing train announcer. Among t...

The Hardy boys left the bank, feeling at once foolish and wrathful. “Stung!” declared Frank. “Stung by a counterfeit bill! Oh, if the fellows hear of this we’ll never hear the end of it!” “What a fine...

If the boys had any lingering hopes that their school chums would not hear of the manner in which they had been fooled, these hopes were quickly removed next morning. Scarcely had Frank and Joe ascend...

When he took his place in class that morning, Frank Hardy glanced over at the desk, two aisles away, where Callie Shaw was sitting. Callie, a brown-haired, brown-eyed miss with a quick, vivacious mann...

Hard work in school occupied the attention of the boys for the rest of the week, for examination time was near, and even Jerry Gilroy was obliged to dismiss baseball from his mind in a frantic attempt...

Carl Stummer, a lanky, shambling old farmer with drooping shoulders, a drooping mustache and a drooping pipe, was just coming in from the fields when the boys came through the barnyard gate. How he ma...

An hour later, the Hardy boys and their chums reached the vicinity of the old mill. They had lunch in the shade of the trees along the deserted road, and it was early in the afternoon when they arrive...

The accident had happened so quickly that it was not for a few moments that the Hardy boys and their chums realized the lad’s danger. Then, as they saw him struggling in the torrent, they began to run...

Frank Hardy had seen that the rope was insecure. He had already laid a plan of action in case the rope broke. The rapids were just around the bend in the river. The stream was narrow at that point and...

A week went by, a week in which the Hardy boys and their chums again wrestled with refractory Latin phrases and geometrical problems, as the examinations drew near. There was little time for fun, even...

Barmet village lay several miles from Bayport on the shore of Barmet Bay, from which it got its name. It was a small place, inhabited by fishermen chiefly, and it was a distributing center for the far...

The Hardy boys were not prepared for this sudden change of front on the part of the stranger. They gazed incredulously at the revolver, but the coldly determined face of their passenger convinced them...

Frank Hardy reduced the speed of the motorboat, because he realized the dangers that lurked in the fog. Almost any moment they might crash into another boat in the bay. Even worse, they might be so fa...

Officer Con Riley was at peace with the world. His heart was full of contentment and his stomach was full of pie. The sun was shining and one of the aldermen had just given him a fairly good cigar. Hi...

“When?” asked the Hardy boys quickly, in response to their father’s announcement of Paul Blum’s escape. “Just a few minutes ago. At least that was when they discovered it. He managed to get out into t...

The quick work of the Hardy boys and Tony Prito in capturing Paul Blum won them many compliments within the next few days. Even Chief Collig grudgingly admitted that it had been a smart capture. In th...

The Hardy boys set out for the old mill on the following morning. They went up the shore road by motorcycle, then turned on to the deserted loop that led to the mill on the banks of the Willow River. ...

“What do you think, Joe?” asked Frank, as they were speeding back to Bayport on their motorcycles. “I don’t think Uncle Dock is a scientist any more than I am.” “That’s my opinion, too. Why should the...

Two days later an event occurred that brought the activities of the counterfeiters much closer home. Frank and Joe returned from school on Monday afternoon to find their mother in a state of great agi...

Three days later, Fenton Hardy, who had been away from home on business, received a note. No one saw the man who left it at the door. The Hardy boys were at school and Mrs. Hardy was busy in the kitch...

The two boys made good time out into the country and when at last they reached the abandoned road that led down to Willow River it was not quite ten o’clock. As they rode they discussed their plan of ...

The Hardy boys always said that the few seconds in which they stood in the shadow of the willow tree with the suspicious Markel almost within arm’s length of them, not knowing whether they had been di...

Frank crouched on the floor beside his brother. He switched off the flashlight. The room was in darkness. Immediately he could see a glow of light through one of the cracks in the flooring. By crouchi...

The Hardy boys could see little chance of escape. Markel was coming down the stairs. They could hear his heavy boots as they clattered on the steps. Frank glanced around the room. There was one window...

When the full story of the activities of the counterfeiters became known next day, Bayport found that the Hardy boys had succeeded in breaking up one of the most dangerous bands that had ever baffled ...