North Woods Manhunt
Contents
| Chapter | Page |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 17 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 5 | 34 |
| 6 | 45 |
| 7 | 56 |
| 8 | 66 |
| 9 | 75 |
| 10 | 83 |
NORTH WOODS MANHUNT
(A Sugar Creek Gang Story)
by
PAUL HUTCHENS
Published by
SCRIPTURE PRESS
SCRIPTURE PRESS PUBLICATIONS, INC.
1825 College Avenue · Wheaton, Illinois
North Woods Manhunt
Copyright, 1948, by
Paul Hutchens
All rights in this book are reserved. No part may be reproduced in anymanner without the permission in writing from the author, except briefquotations used in connection with a review in a magazine or newspaper.
Printed in the United States of America
1
I TELL you, when you just know there’s going to be some excitingtrouble in the next twelve minutes or less, you have to make your redhead do some quick clear thinking, if you can.
Not a one of the Sugar Creek Gang knew what was going to happen, butthe very minute I heard that outboard motor roaring out on the lake,the sound sounding like it was coming straight toward the shore and theold icehouse we were all in, I said to us, “Quick, Gang! Let’s get outof here and get this ransom money back to camp!”
Little Jim’s gunny sack had a lot of money in it right that minute,which we’d dug up out of the sawdust in that abandoned old icehouse.The gunny sack was nearly filled with stuffed fish,—the big andmiddle-sized northern and wall-eyed pike with thousands and thousandsof dollars sewed up inside.
I won’t take time right now to tell you all you maybe ought to knowabout how we happened to find that ransom money buried in the sawdustof that old icehouse, ’cause that’d take too long, and besides you’veprobably read all about it in the