“Here,” he said to one of the men, “your boots will fit him. Take them off.”
The man did so at once. A few moments later Merriwell was pulling the boots on.
Both Diamond and Hodge knew it would be useless to attempt to change Frank’s determination to go out on the jam, and they did not try.
Diamond shook his head, but Bart looked confident.
“He’ll do it,” declared Hodge, speaking in Jack’s ear.
“He may,” confessed the Virginian, “but he is sure to be killed.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“He can’t escape. It takes a skillful river driver to do that.”
“He has been through too many dangers to be killed by a pile of logs.”
“The time comes for every man.”