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It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands a long pull and a warm one but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. Higbie's brawny muscles gave the boat good speed, but by the time we reached our destination we judged that we had pulled nearer fifteen miles than twelve.
It was called twelve miles, straight out to the islands a long pull and a warm one but the morning was so quiet and sunny, and the lake so smooth and glassy and dead, that we could not resist the temptation. Higbie's brawny muscles gave the boat good speed, but by the time we reached our destination we judged that we had pulled nearer fifteen miles than twelve.
Our only hope lay in keeping her head-on to the seas. It was hard work to do this, she plunged so, and so beat and belabored the billows with her rising and falling bows. Now and then one of Higbie's oars would trip on the top of a wave, and the other one would snatch the boat half around in spite of my cumbersome steering apparatus.
He was a little disgusted when he found Riley, Pewee, and Ben Berry in the company, but once in the crowd, there was little chance to back out with credit. The boys crept through the back alleys until they came in front of Mr. Higbie's house, at half past eight o'clock. There was but one light visible, and that was in Mr. Ball's room.
Our only hope lay in keeping her head-on to the seas. It was hard work to do this, she plunged so, and so beat and belabored the billows with her rising and falling bows. Now and then one of Higbie's oars would trip on the top of a wave, and the other one would snatch the boat half around in spite of my cumbersome steering apparatus.
I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now What to do next? I yielded to Higbie's appeals and consented to try the mining once more. We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep.
I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now What to do next? I yielded to Higbie's appeals and consented to try the mining once more. We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep.
Jack rang his dinner-bell rather faintly, and stood back behind all the rest "Jack's afraid," said Pewee. "Why don't you come up to the front, like a man?" Jack could not stand a taunt like this, but came forward into the cluster of half-frightened peace-breakers. Just then, the door of Mr. Higbie's house was opened, and some one came out. "It's Mr. Higbie," said Ben Berry. "He's going to shoot."
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