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Updated: June 15, 2025
"That's as straight as shooting," came from Hamp Gouch. "If we help you to escape, will you stick by us in a little game we are trying to put through?" "I will," answered Pick Loring, promptly. "So will I," added Hamp Gouch. "No game too daring for me either." "Well, it's this way," continued Dan Baxter. "Supposing I told you I had a game on that beats horse stealing all to bits.
"It was Dan Baxter led me into it," he groaned. "It was all his doings, not mine." When Loring, Gouch, and Sculley were confronted by the party the intoxicated evil-doers were in no condition to offer any resistance. Roundly did they bewail their luck, but this availed them nothing, and without ceremony they were made prisoners, their hands being tied behind them with stout ropes.
The prospects looked bright to the two horse thieves, and as soon as Loring returned to the houseboat he and Hamp Gouch applied themselves arduously to the liquor taken from Captain Starr's private locker. "Those fellows mean to get drunk," whispered Lew FIapp, in alarm. "I'm afraid so," answered Baxter. "But it can't be helped."
"The soopleness o' his tongue has been long kent," whispered Kitty to Meg Johnston. "Ay, an' lang felt," replied Meg, in a suppressed tone. "Our sins are naething but a coil o't. When, in God's name, will he tak flight? I canna stand this muckle langer." "Three times have I warded off a swarf," said Kitty. "The gouch o' his breath comes owre me like the reek o' a snuffed-out candle.
Against the wishes of Baxter and Flapp, Jake Shaggam was allowed on board the houseboat and taken to the living room. Here he was given something to eat and drink and some tobacco. "You're a good fellow, Jake," said Hamp Gouch. "Mighty good fellow. Show you something," and he took the old man to where the girls were locked in. "Better stop this," said Flapp, in increased alarm.
"They are fairly well-to-do, and they have close personal friends who, I feel sure, would pay a good price to see the girls get home again unharmed." "You're putty young to be runnin' a game like this," came from Hamp Gouch. "Maybe, but I know just what I am doing." They walked into the living room, and Lew Flapp made an inspection of the pantry and then of Captain Starr's private apartment.
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