CHAPTER VIII

Joe’s Courage The accident had happened so quickly that it was not for a few moments that the Hardy boys and their chums realized the lad’s danger. Then, as they saw him struggling in the torrent, they began to run toward the spot to which the lad was being rapidly carried. Joe was in the lead, and as he ran he was taking off his coat. Just below the mill race the river was full of rocks, and the rapids dashed over them in a boiling fury of spray and foam. If the youth were ever swept into the rapids he would be do…