“There is peril in the air,” warns the guide. Overlanders take flight.Emma says the suspense is killing her. “The worst is yet to come,”promises Stacy Brown. Threatened by a forest fire. The Overland Ridershasten to the relief of imperilled villagers.
Inhabitants of Silver Creek deride Ham White’s warning. Aroused at last.The fire demon roars. Miss Briggs narrowly escapes. “The fire is yonder!Work, you thick-heads!” A woman’s scream starts a panic among thevillagers.
Ham White directs the fire-fighters. Great tongues of flame. The panicincreases. Grace urges village women to the creek. Danger in the water.Elfreda Briggs is carried away on the current. La