Then they piled on more dry wood, and built the fire up so that it was a great, roaring blaze.
"Now we will just find the water. They'll need that for cooking."
In less than five minutes after they separated to look for the spring they knew was near, Dolly cried out that she had found it. And in the same moment the first smoke rose from South Peak.
CHAPTER X
THE SIGNAL SMOKES
"There's smoke, Dolly!" cried Bessie, triumphantly. "Oh, but we've beaten them on this! Ours must have gone up twenty minutes before theirs, and they must have been able to see it when they were building their fire, too."
"Good! Oh, we'll take them down a peg or two before we're done today, Bessie!"
"Don't be too confident yet, Dolly. Remember this is only the start. There's ever so much more to be done before we've won."
"I don't care! You and I have done our share, anyhow."