"Hold up! I surrender!" gasped the fun-loving youth. "Let up! will you?"
"You've got to promise to be good and not throw cold water on our hopes," announced Jack. "We're going to have the best time ever on Snowshoe Island. And not a thing is going to happen to mar our pleasure."
But in this last surmise the oldest Rover boy was sadly mistaken. Many things of which he and his cousins did not dream were to occur, not only to startle and annoy them, but also to place them in extreme peril.
CHAPTER XX
CAUGHT IN A SNOWSTORM
"Next station stop Rockville!"
"That's our jumping off place, boys! We had better get our baggage together!" exclaimed Jack.
"I wonder if Barney Stevenson will be at the station to meet us?" questioned Fred.