"Well, I never!" he gasped.
And then what a roar of laughter went up! And well it might, for the plank rested on nothing but two blocks of wood and was less than a foot from the solid ground! The location was nowhere near Jackson's Gully.
"Tom, you'll do it for a hundred dollars now, won't you?" questioned Roger, earnestly.
"Oh, what a sell!" answered the victim, sheepishly. "Say, please don't tell the other fellows of this," he pleaded. "I'll never hear the end of it!"
"The secrets of the Gee Eyes are never told outside," answered Phil. "But there is one more thing you must do," he added.
"What?"
"Carry that plank back to the boathouse."
"All right."
"And here is a suit for you," said Ben. "Put that on, and then you can participate in the initiation of the Soden brothers."
"Where are they?"