42

VII--A LOST "BULLDOG" 49

VIII--ON THE GULF OF ALASKA 56

IX--THE CLUES WILL FOUND 63

X--IN LUCK AT LAST 70

XI--MAKING NEW PLANS 76

XII--ANOTHER LOST "BULLDOG" 83

XIII--THE BEGINNING OF THE TRAIL 89

XIV--THE LAD WITH THE "DRAG" 94

XV--A BREAK IN THE GLACIER 100

XVI--GEORGE AND SANDY CAUGHT 107

XVII--THE MORSE CODE 114

XVIII--THE ROCKS TUMBLE DOWN 122

XIX--VICTIMS OF THE QUAKE 130

XX--DOWN IN THE CHASM 137

XXI--EXPLAINING CORDOVA INCIDENTS 142

XXII--THE PLANS AT LAST 148

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.

A few hundred feet from the outer edge of the ice-cliff, the forested
moraine became a "dead" glacier. When a glacier advances no longer, but
draws back year by year, it is said to be "dead." The live glacier is
simply a river of ice pouring down precipices and into gorges and
fiords.

As a matter of fact, the log cabin was built upon a glacier, for under
the luxuriant summer undergrowth, under the flowers, and under the
bright green of the hemlocks, lay a great bed of ice which, however, was
slowly receding. In times gone by the current of ice had flowed into the
Gulf of Alaska, but now, because of drainage in another direction, the
glacial ice swept off to the west, in the direction of Copper river.

The four boys in the cabin had just finished supper, the cooking having
be