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Slowly the "Pathfinder" followed the "Scalp-hunter" out into midlake. "How does your craft go now, Gridley?" hailed the big chief from Preston. "She goes like a canoe now," Dick called back joyously. Then he set his chums to easy paddling. All six of Dick & Co. felt a thrill of joy at realizing the difference in the canoe's behavior. "We'll win, all right," predicted Prescott joyously.
Had she strength to swim it? At her first step into the water she saw a sight that sent her back with a bound. There was a boat midlake; two men were in it. One was rowing: the other had a gun in his hand. They were looking toward her: they had seen her. The hounds were drawing near. No escape that way, even if she could still run.
In midlake he turned to urge the dogs into a faster pace, and it was then that he heard under him a hollow, trembling sound, growing in volume even as he hesitated, until it surged in under his feet from every shore, like the rolling thunder of a ten-pin ball. With a loud cry to the dogs he darted forward, but it was too late.