were in their castle! "You fellows open that door!" stormed Fred Ripley.
"Come inside and make us!" mocked Dick.
"Open that door," summoned Fred, "or we'll get a log and use it for a battering ram.

We can get the door down that way!" Dick felt a throb of dismay.

It would be possible to get the door down by the aid of a battering ram, if the boys outside could find a sufficiently large log and had the strength to use it..