As the wagon lurched in the current, the Chinaman had plunged overboard and disappeared beneath the surface.
CHAPTER XVI
A BRAVE RESCUE
"Save him, somebody! The fool's fallen overboard!" roared the foreman. "I can't let go this rope!"
Tad had not seen the cook take his plunge, so, for the moment, he did not realize what had occurred.
"Who's overboard," young Butler demanded sharply.
"The cook," answered Stallings excitedly. "Can't any of you slow pokes get busy and fish him out?"
"Pong!" cried Tad as the head of the Chinaman appeared on the surface.
Without an instant's hesitation the lad leaped into his saddle.