The X-Factor by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2009-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Flight Plans

“Joe!” I yelled as my brother’s head disappeared beneath the roiling rapids. Luckily I’d had my flashlight on him when his tube went down.

My heart pounding, I used my hands and the flashlight to paddle. If the current swept me past him before I could get over there…

Whew! I managed to break loose of the main current. There was another current at the edge, even stronger and faster. But it carried me right toward Joe, whose head had just surfaced again.

“Heads up!” I yelled. “Grab my hand!”

Dropping the flashlight in the well of the tube, I leaned over the side as far as I dared. Without my light it was pretty dark, but I kept my gaze focused on the blob in the water that I was pretty sure was Joe. Then I stretched out my hand.

Yes! I felt Joe grab my wrist. “Hang on!” I called.

The current dumped us back out into the middle of the river. I hauled on Joe’s arm, trying to pull him in with me. He grabbed at the edge of my tube with his free hand, doing his best to yank himself upward.

“Whoa!” I yelped as I felt the tube tip. There was a flash of light in my eyes, though it almost immediately disappeared. Oh, man. There went my flashlight.

But I wasn’t too worried about that at the moment. Working together, Joe and I managed to get him out of the water and into the tube beside me.

“You all right?” I asked him.

He sort of burbled and gasped for a moment. “Yeah,” he said at last. “I’m cool.”

Those tubes are pretty big. Even so, it was snug in there with both of us. Plus, the extra weight slowed us down quite a bit.

“Lost my flashlight,” I told Joe. “I don’t think we’re going to catch up to whoever that is up there.”

“I know. Not like this, anyway.” Joe sounded frustrated. “Think we could get this thing over to a spot where we could climb out?”

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