within the next hour.
At noon Dick & Co.halted.

Under the shade of a group of trees, close to a roadside spring, they built two small fires.

Over one they made coffee; over the other, they fried bacon and eggs.
This, with bread, constituted the meal.

A brief rest, then on they went once more.
It was toward five o'clock when Dick and Tom, who knew the road from having tramped over it before, announced that they were less than half a mile from the point where they would turn in to go to the second lake.
At this time Greg and Dan were managing the push cart.

Tom and Dick strode on ahead, watching for the first sign of the path that should lead down to their intended camp site.
Suddenly, however, Prescott seized Reade by the arm, halting him.
"What's the matter ?" asked Tom.
"Sh!---" Dick piloted his friend in behind a line of bushes, then went cautiously ahead.
"Look over there!" whispered Dick.
Tom Reade gave a start when he found himself gazing at a red runabout that stood just off the road and apparently deserted.
"Humph! That's a Smattach, too," declared Tom.