Thus he not only secured the boom against opening any wider, but closed the exit already made.
[Illustration: "Winn secured one end of the cable to that part of the boom resting against the snag."] "That's as good a job as any of them could have done," he remarked to himself, regarding his work through the gathering gloom with great satisfaction.

"Now for the fellows that got away." It was a much harder task to capture and tow back those three truant logs than it had been to repair the boom.

It was such hard work, and the darkness added so much to its difficulties, that almost any other boy would have given it up in despair, and allowed the three logs to escape.

But Winn Caspar was not inclined to give up anything he had once undertaken.

Having determined to do a certain thing, he would stick to it "like a dog to a root," as one of the mill-hands had said of him.