A yell, and he was gone below the surface.
And now everybody seemed shouting at once. A hundred people ran to and fro, shouting out what ought to be done.
"Get a rope! Run for a doctor! Bring fence rails! Telephone for the police!"
That's the usual way with a crowd, to think up things that others ought to do.
Dick Prescott espied Dave Darrin ahead. Dropping Laura's arm without a word, Dick skated swiftly up to Dave, called Darrin, then lightning. As he worked young Prescott shot out a few hurried orders.
Then another great cry went up. Dick Prescott was sprinting fast toward the thin ice. Close to where Fred Ripley had gone down there was another great rent in the ice.
Dick Prescott was "in the freeze," in quest of his enemy!
CHAPTER XIX
DICK & CO. SHOW SOME TEAM WORK
So suddenly and heavily did he break through the thin ice that
Dick went underneath the surface.