. Tom Slade on the river . ywhere around there? Tom asked. 66 TOM SLADE ON THE RIVER No, I didnt—Im a punk scout--! mustbe blind, said Doc. Youre good on first-aid, said Tom, in-differently. Howd you know it was hickory? Con-nie asked. Because I can tell hickory, said Tom,bluntly, and its being all worm-eaten provedIt—kind of. Thats the trouble with hickory. They always had to make the best of Tomsanswers. I dont know where he got the hickorystick, he said, as he pushed along through theunderbush, but he didnt get it anywherearound here, thats sure. And he probably didnt sit down thatsame day
. Tom Slade on the river . ywhere around there? Tom asked. 66 TOM SLADE ON THE RIVER No, I didnt—Im a punk scout--! mustbe blind, said Doc. Youre good on first-aid, said Tom, in-differently. Howd you know it was hickory? Con-nie asked. Because I can tell hickory, said Tom,bluntly, and its being all worm-eaten provedIt—kind of. Thats the trouble with hickory. They always had to make the best of Tomsanswers. I dont know where he got the hickorystick, he said, as he pushed along through theunderbush, but he didnt get it anywherearound here, thats sure. And he probably didnt sit down thatsame day and carve things on it, either, sug-gested Garry; Tom, youre a wonder. He might have lived up here for two orthree years after he fell, said Doc reflective-ly. Gee, it starts you thinking, dont it? Connie shook his head. Its a mystery, allright, said he. The thought of the solitary man, disabledcrippled, perhaps, living there on that lonelymountain after the terrible accident whichbrought him there lent a new gruesome-. PRESENTLY ALL FOUR WERE EXAMINING—A HUMAN FOOTPRINT. Page 57. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOB. LENOX ANDT1LDKN FOUNDATIONSR L THE MOUNTAIN SHELTER 67 ness to their discoveries. And who but TomSlade would have been able to keep an openmind and to see so clearly by the aid of tri-fling signs as to separate the two apparentcatastrophes and see them as independentoccurrences? Tomasso, youre the real scout/ said rest of us are only imitations/ Tom said nothing. He was used to thiskind of talk and was about as proof againstsuch praise as a battleship is against a just now he was thinking of other if he could have looked into the futureand seen there the extraordinary explanationof his discovery and known the strange adven-tures it would lead to, he might have paused,even on that all but hopeless errand of rescue^and looked again at those pathetic those things were to be reserved for an-other summer. Is there anything we
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