Tom Slade's Double Dare
                                            
                            By Percy Keese Fitzhugh
                            
                                28 Oct, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: There, just below them was the springboard an inch or two above the surface of the lake. Ordinarily, it projected from the shore nearly a yard above the water, but lately, the swollen lake had risen above it. Now, however, it was visib
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                                                Brief Extract: There, just below them was the springboard an inch or two above the surface of the lake. Ordinarily, it projected from the shore nearly a yard above the water, but lately, the swollen lake had risen above it. Now, however, it was visible again just above the surface.
This meant that the water had receded more in an hour than it had risen in a whole week. The strong wind was blowing toward the pavilion and would naturally force the water up along that shore. But in spite of the wind, the water in the lake was receding at an alarming rate. Something was wrong. The little trickle from the spring up behind the camp had grown into a torrent and was pouring into the lake. Yet the water in the lake was receding. Less