CHAPTER XXIV

IN THE ICE KING’S GRIP “Mark found a place that looks like a fairly good field for a take-off,” said Jack Forrest, in relating his and Mark Lawson’s doings to their chief. “When he reported, I went back with him to give the place the once-over. When we got back and found that you had not turned up, Ted, I tell you we were worried. We started out to search for you, getting more and more scared all the time. We’d just about given you up for lost when we stumbled upon you and this madman half-covered with snow. Anothe…