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"Yes," Fred explained, "he was with some other men, canal-men we thought they were, that boarded us between Utica and Rome and we couldn't get rid of them. I thought at first they were going to try to take the Black Growler away from us, but they didn't do that and when Mr. Stevens came along in the Caledonia and stopped to help us they all ran away.
A voice at that moment hailed from one of the boats across the water to know what was the matter, and half a dozen porters, canal-men, night watchmen from the warehouses, came running around the head of the basin; but before they could arrive, a man dashed out of the darkness behind the two watchers, tore past them, and sprang for the boat.
"I don't speak of myself in that way," replied Mr. Brown, "and yet " "That's what he is," interrupted Mr. Button "He already has run down and found most of the bonds." "How did that one come to be on our boat?" inquired Grant. "Why, I had it in my pocket," laughed Mr. Brown, "and I put it under the cushion for safe keeping. You see, I joined that crowd and they thought I was one of the canal-men.
They visited several places of interest in the little city but at an early hour returned to the hotel and sought their rooms. The following morning found them soon after an early breakfast once more on board the Black Growler. They now were about to pass out upon the waters of Lake Ontario. Whatever perils they had experienced from the canal-men were no longer to be faced.
The task at last having been completed, the Go Ahead boys at once started toward the dock where their motor-boat had been left. As they drew near the place, John suddenly stopped and clutching George by his arm, who was walking beside him, said, "Look at that man over on the dock! Who is it?" "It's the fellow who was the leader of that gang of canal-men that boarded us the other morning."
Their experience with the canal-men now was only a memory and they could well afford to laugh at what had been said and done. "That's what you get for having us stop in a place such as you picked out, Peewee," said George. "There's no accounting for the tastes of some people. Now, I never should have selected that place."
"The landlady said the storm drove all the canal-men into the house, but it didn't seem to me there was anything that drove them out. I shouldn't like to meet one of those men in a dark alley." "You don't have to meet them," suggested George. "We have lived through the night somehow and are all safe. Now if the Black Growler is ready we are. We'll get our breakfast at Rome, I suppose."
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