Don't go too near her, fellows.

She's likely to collapse any minute." "Look out! She's going!" exclaimed Larry Goheen.

A moment later the whole top of the unwieldy boat fell in, while the flames attacked the hull with renewed fury.
* * * * * When the Meadow-Brook Girls returned to the shore of the lake, that afternoon, well laden with the fruits of their shopping, they were met by the members of the Tramp Club, who looked unduly solemn.

One glance at their grave faces and Harriet cried out apprehensively, "What on earth has happened to you, boys ?" "We're all right," stammered George, "but the 'Red Rover'-- well, it is--" The Meadow-Brook Girls all looked involuntarily in the direction of where the "Red Rover" had lain that morning.
"Why--why--where is our boat ?" faltered Miss Elting.
Then George poured forth the story of the morning's disaster, while the girls listened in consternation to the recital of the way in which the houseboat had been set fire to and sunk.
"Of course that half-breed did it," concluded George, "and now that we've told you all about it, we are going to start out after him.

I'll wager he's somewhere around this lake yet." "I shall go back to the village at once and put the matter in the hands of the constable," declared Miss Elting.