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Updated: July 21, 2025
"We got word from Doright, here, that our friends and our friends' friend had been shanghaied aboard a schooner and so we went after them and got them, too," he proudly stated. "Well, boys, it seems to me it would have been real easy to stop and pay your shipyard charges when you were coming back." The boys all gasped.
Ah could sleep down in here by the engines or on deck." "All right, Doright," answered Jack. "We'll have to consider the matter a while. We'll let you know later. You may go now." After the negro's disappearance toward the cabin, the boys again gathered about Jack, eager for the next development.
Not far along the path they were halted by Lopez, who whispered a short consultation with Doright. In a moment he ordered the boys to one side of the road for some distance where he compelled them to lie flat on their faces and commanded them to absolute silence on pain of instant death. He kept his rifle at their ears.
"Jack," Tom spoke at length, "do you know what I think?" "No, Tom, I do not," replied Jack. "You think so many things it's hard to keep track of them all. I wish I might. What is it?" "I don't believe the boys ever were in that cabin at all." "Oh, yes, dey was, Boss!" protested Doright. "Ah seen 'em." "Then they got out!" stoutly maintained Tom. "Where are they now?" asked Frank.
"Don't know, Boss," replied the darky. "Dey don't need tyin'." "Oh no, they don't," Lopez replied sarcastically. "They didn't need it up in the woods, neither. That's why they burned my cabin down. Now I haint got no home no more'n a rabbit." "Haint got no rope, Boss," dolefully declared Doright.
Stanley was interested, while the boys voted to buy Doright a cabin and piece of land whenever he was ready to settle down. There followed a couple of weeks of uninterrupted pleasure fishing and exploring the islands in the Gulf of Mexico. At length the boys started on their way north by way of the Mississippi River, where the Fortuna and its crew met various interesting adventures.
There detailed explanations of all that had happened since Harry and Arnold left for a fishing trip were made, while Frank Evans and Charley Burnett told their story of the incidents in which they had been concerned. "I'm puzzled over two things," stated Jack at length. "What are they?" queried Arnold. "Ask me, I can tell you." "First, I'm puzzled over the sudden turn of front in Doright."
The boys lost no time in securing their own skiff and felt no compunction against using the boat brought by Wyckoff and Lopez. Into the larger of these the chest was loaded. The boys of the Fortuna went along as personal bodyguard with Rowdy to share the honors. Harrison and Carlos with Doright took the smaller boat.
This time a tap at a window brought Rowdy to attention and made Jack spring to his feet in alarm. In a boat sat Doright, the negro. "What do you want?" demanded Jack. "Can we do anything for you?" "No sir, Boss, youall caint do nothin' for me," answered the negro, rolling his eyes upward. "Mebbe youall kin do something for them pardners of yourn! They done gone away."
"Let's run under a check until breakfast is over, then we'll make good time straight for Biloxi." "Hurray, we're homeward bound," shouted Tom. "Hurray again!" "Shower bath first," cried Arnold, dragging out the hose. What a glorious morning that was. Doright laughed until he could laugh no more to see the antics of the boys who took turns holding the hose on each other.
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