Or, The Camp on the Glacier

CONTENTS

[Chapter I—Under Sealed Orders]
[Chapter II—The Print of a Thumb]
[Chapter III—A Message in Code]
[Chapter IV—The Lost Plans]
[Chapter V—Fishing in Alaska]
[Chapter VI—A Missing Boy]
[Chapter VII—A Lost "Bulldog"]
[Chapter VIII—On the Gulf of Alaska]
[Chapter IX—The Clues Will Found]
[Chapter X—In Luck at Last]
[Chapter XI—Making New Plans]
[Chapter XII—Another Lost "Bulldog"]
[Chapter XIII—The Beginning of the Trail]
[Chapter XIV—The Lad With the "Drag"]
[Chapter XV—A Break in the Glacier]
[Chapter XVI—George and Sandy Caught]
[Chapter XVII—The Morse Code]
[Chapter XVIII—The Rocks Tumble Down]
[Chapter XIX—Victims of the Quake]
[Chapter XX—Down in the Chasm]
[Chapter XXI—Explaining Cordova Incidents]
[Chapter XXII—The Plans at Last]

Chapter I

UNDER SEALED ORDERS

An August night in Alaska.

To the North, the tangle of the Chugach Mountains; to the East, Bering Glacier; to the South, the purple waters of the Gulf of Alaska; to the West, Prince William Sound. All around, the grandeur of a world in the making—high mountains, rugged summits, deep cut valleys, creeping glaciers.

In a log cabin standing in the center of a small forested moraine four boys of about seventeen were grouped together. The one door and the two windows of the structure were covered with mosquito wire. The hum of insect life came into the room with the monotony of the murmur of the sea. Although it was after ten o'clock in the evening, the sun still rode high above the horizon.