The team left the roadway, and the next instant had crashed through a frail rail-fence.––Page 24.
Dave Porter Series
DAVE PORTER AND HIS DOUBLE
OR
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BASSWOOD FORTUNE
BY
EDWARD STRATEMEYER
Author of “Dave Porter at Oak Hall,” “The Old Glory Series,”“Colonial Series,” “Pan-American Series,”“Soldiers of Fortune Series,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER S. ROGERS
BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published, August, 1916
Copyright, 1916,
By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
All rights reserved
DAVE PORTER AND HIS DOUBLE
Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.
“Dave Porter and His Double” is a completestory in itself, but forms the twelfth volumein a line issued under the general title of “DavePorter Series.”
This series was begun some years ago by thepublication of “Dave Porter at Oak Hall,” inwhich my young readers were introduced to awide-awake American lad at a typical Americanboarding-school.
The publication of this volume was followedby “Dave Porter in the South Seas,” to whichportion of our globe the lad journeyed to clearup a question concerning his parentage. Nextcame “Dave Porter’s Return to School,” tellingof additional happenings at Oak Hall; “DavePorter in the Far North,” where he went on asecond journey looking for his father; “Dave Porterand His Classmates,” in which our young heroshowed what he could do under most trying circumstances;“Dave Porter at Star Ranch,” inwhich he took part in many strenuous adventuresin the Wild West; “Dave Porter and HisRivals,” in which the youth outwitted some of hisold-time enemies; “Dave Porter on Cave Island,”giving the details of a remarkable sea voyage andstrange doings ashore; “Dave Porter and theRunaways,” in which the boy taught some of hisschool chums a much-needed lesson; “Dave Porterin the Gold Fields,” whither he went in searchof a lost mine; and finally “Dave Porter at BearCamp,” which was located in the AdirondackMountains, and where we last left him.
In the present volume we find our hero in anew field of activity. Having graduated fromschool, he has taken up the study of civil engineering,and while engaged in that calling in Texas hebecomes mixed up in most unusual happenings,the particulars of which are given in the