Tom Slade's Double Dare

e lake was entirely surrounded by mountains. And it was the inverted forms of these mountains reflected in the water which ga

it three thousand feet above the sea level. A wilderness of tangled underbrush, like barbed wire entanglements, baffled

a pool. Its two sides were the lower reaches of the great mountain and its neighbor, and all that prevented the cove fr

enough to trickle through into the gully, and then you could pick fish up with your hands where t

ned the hollow. And here it was, right in the hollow near the bridge, that Ebon Berry had his rural garage

et road crossing. The question was, had this happened, and if so, had the bus reached the fatal spot? All that the boys knew wa

wont. No storm could arouse him ou

see what they can find out. How about you, Hervey? Are you game to

l wait till we get there

" shouted

going to overload a boat in this kind of weather. I'll take Roy and Hervey an

pie for those two troops that ar

younger boys donned. He must also have advertised the adventurous expedition during his errand i

d rendered their storm jackets quite useless. Tom wore khaki trousers and a pongee shirt which clung to

almost impossible to get started against the wind, and when at last their steady, even pulling overcame the deterring power of the gale they were able to move

e shore, their progress became easier, for the mountai

ute," said Tom, pant

y of them had spoken, so inte

straight ahea

said Roy sudden

floating tree which was drifting rapidly in the same direction

he cove. We're caught in it. Let's try to get a little off shore; we'll have

tried to backwater and at the same t

y, who never failed to get th

grip and they were borne along pell-mell, with trees a

p community was congregated, safe from the storm. The noises which had seemed weird enough at camp were appalli

ter back. But directly under the mountain there was no wind, and their position was as that of a person who is under the curve of a waterfall. And here, because there was no wind to counteract it, the water

y its closeness to the shore where every missile of rock or tree, cast b

h the spray and fine blown rain across that bla