XVI.--RECORDS TWO VICTORIES OVER WICKASAW AND AN EPISODE WITH FISH 159 XVII.--WITNESSES THE DEPARTURE OF THE FOUR ON A CANOE TRIP AND BRINGS THEM INTO CAMP FOR THE NIGHT 174 XVIII.--TELLS HOW THEY FOUND A DERELICT AND A COURSE DINNER, AND MET WITH SHIPWRECK 189 XIX.--CONCERNS ITSELF WITH THE DANGEROUS PLIGHT OF DAN AND NELSON AND THE COURAGE OF THE LATTER 199 XX.--RELATES THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRIP AND WHAT HAPPENED AT CAMP 210 XXI.--TELLS HOW THE FOUR LAID PLANS AND HOW BOB PREPARED FOR A VICTORY 219 XXII.--NARRATES THE PROGRESS OF THE CONTEST WITH WICKASAW AND WITNESSES THE DISINTEGRATION OF ONE WELLS 233 XXIII.--PROVES THE SCORE-BOOK IN ERROR AND CLOSES THE STORY 242 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE “Coming! Don’t give up, boys!” _Frontispiece._ Camp Chicora. 6 He was tracing a monstrous C. 80 “Look!” he cried. 120 “Over with them,” said Dan. 162 He dashed for the plate. 244 [Illustration: Camp Chicora.] FOUR IN CAMP CHAPTER I INTRODUCES NELSON TILFORD, AND WITNESSES HIS ARRIVAL AT CAMP CHICORA “That’s Chicora over there.” The man at the wheel turned to the boy standing beside him and nodded his head at a landing toward which the nose of the big steam-launch was slowly turning. It lay less than an eighth of a mile away across the smooth waters of the lake, a good-sized wharf, a float, a pole from which a blue-and-gray flag hung lifeless, and a flotilla of various kinds of boats. Several figures stood upon the pier, and their voices came shrill and clear across the intervening space. From the shore, which here circled inward into a tiny cove, the hill swept up rather abruptly for three hundred feet or more, and a third of the way up the gleam of unpainted boards through the trees told Nelson Tilford of the location of the camp which was to be his home for the next two months. It was a pleasant, peaceful scene before him, but the shadow of the hill had already crept well into the lake, leaving the shore and wooded slope in twilight, and a slight qualm of loneliness stole over him for the instant.