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Bob Layton was the first to spring into action.

“Come along, fellows!” he shouted. “Hurry! We’ve got to get those people out! It may be a matter of life or death!”

In an instant the boys were running like deer to the scene of the accident.

They reached the shattered fence and peered over into the gully. The sides were steep, and the car had fallen a distance of thirty feet. It had rolled over and over, and now lay upside down amid a welter of broken glass and splintered wood and twisted steel. The engine was still going, and from the wreck arose groans and shouts that testified that the occupants of the doomed machine were still alive.

Sliding, scrambling, and often falling, the boys got down somehow into the ravine and rushed to the car.

Bob, who reached it first, with the others close on his heels, peered into one of the windows, and in the dim light made out what seemed to be four men thrown together in a heap. Two of them seemed to be stunned and made no movement, but the others were struggling desperately to extricate themselves from the tangled mass of bodies.