"Water come down! Come quick! Run!"
This time they understood. Uttering a shout the jacks burst out through the narrow doorway, and ran for the river, followed by the Overland girls on flying feet, and meeting Joe Shafto on the way to the scene of the disaster.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE RIOT OF THE LOGS
"We'll have to be quick!" shouted Tom to make himself heard above the roaring of the waters. "Beardown hard!"
"I can't. I'm slipping!" gasped Hippy.
"The gates are moving! Keep it up!"
The two men struggled and fought, gaining a few inches at a time but not enough to permit the jam of logs that was rushing down the stream to pass through the gates in the flood.