"Can you take hold of this rope, and keep hold of it" Can you climb across the thin ice, holding onto the rope and being towed if the ice breaks ?" "I---I---I'm afraid," chattered Ripley.

"You come with me!" "It'll be a good deal easier if you can go first, and alone," spoke the freshman, rather sternly.

"I think I can keep myself afloat until you get over to solid ice.

Then the rope can be thrown back to me." "I'm afraid, I tell you," insisted Fred, his teeth clicking against each other.

"Can't you see that I'm all in ?" "You'll have us both all in, if you don't get some courage together," young Prescott insisted.