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Updated: June 2, 2025
"What shall we do now?" asked Ruth finally, and in a whisper. "Let's go down to that place where we saw the boat land the other morning," returned her companion. "I'd like to look about there a bit." "Do you think it is wise?" "I don't know about the wisdom of it," chuckled Chessleigh. "But I do know that I'm not at all satisfied.
"It sure is," agreed the young fellow, but wonderingly. "The Kingdom of Pipes," murmured Ruth. "What's that?" asked Chessleigh. Ruth repeated Helen's name for the rocky island on which Ruth had met the queer old man. "That call came from the island, didn't it?" she asked. "I believe it did. What's going on here?" "Hush!" begged Ruth. "That launch is coming nearer."
Bilby himself faintly groaned. "Put your hands up all of you!" commanded Copley, and one of the most amazing things about the whole wild extravaganza was that the young fellow's voice was perfectly unshaken. Lads that have been in the army are apt to consider circumstances like these as meat and drink to them. Chessleigh had not served Uncle Sam in vain. He was as cool as the proverbial cucumber!
"Humph!" grumbled Helen. "Now, Helen Cameron!" gasped Ruth, "are you going to be foolish enough to refuse to be taken off this island by Chessleigh Copley?" "Didn't say I was." "And don't be unkind to him!" pleaded Ruth. "You seem so terribly fond of him that I guess he won't mind how I treat him." "You know better," Ruth told her admonishingly.
As she spoke, a moving object appeared in the mist. There was no light upon this strange craft. Chessleigh shuttered his own cockpit lamp instantly. "Good boy," acclaimed Ruth. "There is something going on here " They heard the call from the island again. There was a low reply from the strange launch a whistle.
When Chessleigh was about to start the engine again and head for the camp and dinner they suddenly spied a powerful speed boat coming out from the Canadian side. It cleaved the water like the blade of a knife, throwing up a silver wave on either side. And as it passed the Lauriette Ruth and her companion could see several men in her cockpit. "There are those fellows again," Chess remarked.
Just how mentally disturbed the old man was it was difficult for the girl to judge. But she feared that he had, after all his claims, absolutely no influence with the Chinamen. She believed that the leader of the Orientals was the heavy-set Chinaman who had struck Chessleigh Copley down with the club.
Ruth did not wish to disappoint Chessleigh. She felt that Helen Cameron had no reason for treating the young man as she did. So, as she had done before, and without much interest in the evening sailing party, Ruth left the bungalow to join the waiting Chessleigh at the dock.
Helen laughed in a provoking way. "You can run along with your Chessleigh if you like. Not me!" "That is just what I will do," said Ruth quietly, but with flashing eyes. "I would not insult him by refusing now. I will tell him you have a headache and cannot come." "Do as you like," was the ungracious reply. "You are crazy about Chess, I guess."
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