now got close together.
"We've got to go down after Danny Grin," Reade declared.

"You fellows watch, and I'll get as close to bottom as I can." Tom sank.

To the anxious boys he seemed to be gone for an age.
He came up alone.
"Did you see Dan ?" Dick faltered.

"Not a glimpse of him," returned Tom despairingly.
"See the canoe ?" "No." "Then you couldn't have gone down in the right place," Dick argued.
"I'll try it, fellows!" exclaimed Darrin.

Down went Dave.