I am going over to the camp," replied Tom.
"Is there danger ?" questioned Grace anxiously.
"I think not.

I shall not be gone more than a few minutes." Tom took his pocket lamp with him, leaving the Overlanders in the dark, for their own lamps were in their packs in the tents.

Tom, however, came back inside of fifteen minutes.
"How is the camp ?" asked Elfreda.
"There isn't any camp," answered Tom.
"Wha--at ?" gasped the Overlanders.
"It hit me and went on into the river," groaned Hippy.

"Voice of nature," he added in a mutter, but no one laughed.
"Our camp was pitched in the travoy way.

The storm loosened the supports of the skidway and let the logs down.