Part 27 (1/2)

”I guess the uide!” roared the Professor

Anvik, drawing his blanket still more closely about him, stepped over and threw so by this ti noise that fairly deafened them One had to shout to an raining down upon the the boys to shi+eld their eyes with their arms Stacy, in alarround, yet not knohat second they reat upheaval of nature

”It's an earthquake,” shouted Ned Rector

Stacy heard the words in a brief lull The fat boy burst fro like a wild Indian

”An earthquake! Oh, ow! We'll all be shot to pieces Oh, help!”

Tad grabbed the boy by a shoulder, giving hi

”Stop that noise!” he commanded ”Don't yell until you are hurt”

”I want to yell now Maybe I can't yell after I'm hurt,” returned Chunky

”Guide! What is it?” roared the Professor, the perspiration standing out over his face, as Tad observed when the fire blazed up

Anvik finished what he was doing before he answered Then he spoke without looking up

”Him mountain fall down”

”Is it an ice slide?” shouted Tad

”Ugh!”

”An avalanche, do you mean?”

”Yes; an ice-avalanche,” explained the Professor ”I have seen them in other parts of the world”

”Sun make him ice weak; ice fall down,” explained Anvik

”How about danger for us?” asked Walter

For answer the Indian shrugged his shoulders and went on poking the fire Then, of a sudden, there caout the fire as it passed

Darkness and a terrifying silence followed

CHAPTER XVII

AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

After the roar of the passing avalanche had ceased, and the awed silence became oppressive, Stacy Brown's voice was heard