XVI.—[THE LAST CAMP FIRE ON CATAMOUNT ISLAND]

THE STRANGE CABIN ON CATAMOUNT ISLAND.

[CHAPTER I.]

HOW THE DARE WAS GIVEN.

"And so Herb Benson dared you, Max, you say?"

"That's what he did, Steve."

"To camp on Catamount Island?"

"And stay there a full week. He said that even if we did have nerve enough to make the try, he'd give us just one solitary night to hang out there!"