Tom Slade's Double Dare

s, going forward cautiously, looked down shudderingly into the yawning chasm. For a

d Tyson saved our lives, isn't it?" he pi

the scouts; "so dead we p

it?" asked Go

h and tousled his hair for him. The little fe

o that camp so

haps some one will come d

we

e're s

in Tyson's tro

r laughed. "Yo

ild animals

animals," the scout

wild a

thing yo

e y

t's

's inside lying on t

you mustn't go i

first overwhelming rush of water. The flood had subsided by now, and only a trickle of water passed through the gully. In this, and up

of the road. They had fought their way through mud and storm, bringi

lake broke through up yonder. The boys have checked the flood with a kind of mak

ys went ahead and one of th

the little fellow. "Maybe he'll get a

nd," said the other arriving sc

ngry," one of

ailing here," said

Goliath. "He hasn't got any clothes hardly, and he don't kn

t know anything about him. He seems a kind of victim of the storm-crazed. I think it just possible he intended-Come insi

him a scout. He looked more like a juvenile hobo. But sticking out of his soaking pocket was that one indubitable sign of identification, his rimless hat cut full of holes

time I saw him, I explicitly told him not to leave camp without my permission. I s

he's seriousl

. Nine lives like a cat, in fa

like a scout fell

llow, my boy," Mr. Denny said. "Good scout fellows usual

's what I'll tell 'em

ng if you tell them t

ives too, don't they?" t

to have it all down

our troop," the little f

dbook and obeys the scout laws

e little fellow said, rather irrelevantl

e can get to camp and find so

a charm for me," sai

rs, Goliath was not permitted to dig down into the re