To his triumph he must add the glory of a noble, unselfish deed.

Never knowing that the coveted honor was already his, he set out to win it by a tracking stunt which would fulfill the third requirement to bring him the stalking badge, and with it the Eagle award.

He had said that nothing would stand in his way, not even mountains.

He had made this boast to Tom Slade.
"And that boast he failed to make good.

Something _did_ stand in his way.