Mr. Mabie will scent trouble a long way
off, and find a refuge among the rocks, if necessary; but I'm inclined
to think the fire will never get to him," replied Frank.
"Do you believe the wind will shift, then, and blow back on us?" asked
Will.
"I'm not a wind prophet. What I had in mind was that the fire would be
put out before it got three miles from here."
"Put out! Do you mean to say they've a fire department up here?"
demanded Will.
"Why, certainly; but it doesn't cost them a cent to maintain it.
Somebody just pulls the string, and the water comes down," laughed
Jerry.
"Oh! I see now what you mean! It's going to rain!"
"Hear! hear. He's tumbled to it at last! Sometimes it seems to me that
we'll just have to get out a special dictionary for Will, so he can find
the answers to conundrums without waste of time or energy," declared
Bluff.
"That's the penalty every genius has to pay," remarked Will composedly.
Every now and then the boys were compelled to duck their heads beneath
the surface of the river, for the heat became unbearable.
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