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Unabashed by the presence of the strangers, though Wolsey's attire could leave her in no doubt as to his high ecclesiastical dignity, she sprang ashore at the landing-place, and fastened her bark to the side of the boathouse. "You are Mabel Lyndwood, I presume, fair maiden?" inquired the cardinal, in his blandest tones.
Nancy never did this without remembering her adventures before she came to Pinewood Hall the occasion when she had helped save Bob Endress from drowning. Bob was now a lordly senior at Dr. Dudley's Academy. Nancy had only seen him flashing past the girls' boathouse in the Academy eight. Bob was stroke of his school's first crew. Nancy often wondered if he had learned to swim yet.
At five minutes before eight Hiram Driggs arrived, keys in hand. "I see you're on time," he smiled, unlocking the gate and throwing it open. "Now come in and we'll run your canoe out on the river float." Even in the dim light of the boathouse Dick & Co. could see the sides of the canoe glisten with their coating of pitch and oil that lay outside the bark.
The boathouse was soon improved, and made so strong that the boys felt they could defy such conspirators; for they hardly believed Ted was ready to set fire to a building, and take the chances of being sent away to a reform school, in order to get square with some of those boys he hated bitterly.
While they were discussing this, the canoe lay on the float., whence they were soon to take it into the boathouse. "We can try it now," suggested Dick. Getting a good hold, Dick & Co. raised the war canoe to their several shoulders. They found they could accomplish the feat, though it wasn't an easy one. "We'll have to give up that idea," Tom remarked rather mournfully.
"Yes, and it runs in and out for miles," Hal replied. "I have a canoe down here at our boathouse. Let's take a sail." The Bingham property, like the Minturn, was on a cliff at the front, and ran back to the lake, where the little boathouse was situated.
When the academy closed on the 25th of June little or nothing remained to be done in the way of preparation thanks to Ned's good generalship. The four canoes lay in the lower section of the boathouse, radiant in new coats of paint.
Hastings, which was on the shore of the lake, he saw quite a throng going down toward the boathouse. "There'll be some lively bidding," thought Tom as he got off his machine and pushed it ahead of him through the drive and down toward the river. "I hope they don't go above two hundred dollars, though."
They visited every nook and corner, including the classrooms, the dormitories, the stables, and the gymnasium and boathouse, and nearly bothered the life out of Peleg Snuggers, Mrs. Green, the housekeeper, and Alexander Pop, the colored waiter of the mess hall. "Hullo, Aleck!" cried Tom rushing up and grabbing the colored man by the hand. "How are you pretty well?
Then we had him cut them, that is, the line of uprights, and we built the boathouse without any trouble at all. It was sport to arrange all the little turns and twists, like building a block house in the nursery." "You certainly made a good job of it," said Bert, looking critically over the boathouse. "It's all in the design, of course; the nailing together is the easiest part."
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