CHAPTER X

THE RAVENS

Doc Carson is a Raven and he's our First Aid Scout. He always has some
things with him, because that's our rule. But you can bet I didn't wait
for him. And I didn't care if I was killed or not, I didn't, if Wig
Weigand was killed.

So I jumped right through the window and the smoke got into my eyes and
made my ears ring, but I didn't care. I could taste it all thick, too,
but I didn't care. That was the smoke that had to do what Wigley Weigand
told it to, and he scribbled all over the sky with it, that's what he
did, and now it had turned around and killed him.

I knew that up to six or seven inches from the floor there is never much
smoke and I knew he must have lain down low when he was almost
unconscious and worked that damper. And those fellows up there had been
laughing and cheering all the while, when he was lying there like that.

I didn't see Artie anywhere and there wasn't any sound. I lay down flat
and crawled over to Wig and you bet I worked quick. I tied his hands
together with my scout scarf--it was the Silver Fox scarf--and I tied
the scarf around my neck.

"Wig," I said, but he didn't speak and his legs and his neck hung loose,
sort of, and it kind of scared me. Then I crawled to the window, because