There were still many who were shouting confusing advice as to
what others ought to do. A few were even running about trying
to do something.
Dave Darrin was actually "on the job."
He had pressed Dick's other partners into service and as many
of the High School boys as possible. They got off their skates
in a rush.
"Tom," shouted Dave, "you and Greg get some of the fellows and
rush down as many ties as you can from that pile by the railroad
tracks. Dalzell, you and Harry get down at the edge of send him
your way. Make a raft by laying four ties side by side, and lash
the ends. Do it as quick as a flash. I'll be there by that time."
Tom and Greg quickly had a dozen men running for railroad ties,
a pile of which stood less than an eighth of a mile away.
By the time that the man with ropes arrived, and two more behind
him, bringing more, there were a dozen railroad ties on the ice
by the outer edge of the cove. Harry Hazelton and Dan snatched
short lengths of rope and knotted them around either end of the
raft.
"Some of you men make another raft, just like that one!" shouted
Dave, who, at the time, was busily engaged in making a noose at
one end of a long coil of half-inch rope.
"Here, you two men get hold of the other end of this," ordered
Dave, running up with the coil of rope.
Then, hardly waiting to make sure that they had the rope, Dave
turned to Harry and Dan, calling to them to help him push the
raft out beyond the cove.
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