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I'd rather be known as the man who had lightened the burdens of mankind than to be a famous general who had conquered the world." Jack did not stay longer than half an hour, but during that time he went over the whole scheme of building the new iceboat in Toby's shop.
Staples sat on the ice in a dazed manner, and passed his hand across his brow. In the cold gleam of the moonlight he saw the shining barrel of Brown's revolver "covering" him. "It's all up, Mr. Staples. Get on board the iceboat." "Where are you going to take me to?" "I'll let you go when we come to the coast if you tell me where the money is."
"Don't you girls want to come on the iceboat for a ways first?" asked Bert of his sister and Dorothy. "Then, when you get tired of riding, you can skate." "Shall we?" inquired Nan. "I guess so," answered Dorothy, and so they did. The wind was not as strong as it had been the day before, but it was enough of a breeze to send the Ice Bird along at a good speed.
He would say no more than that he had known her by half a dozen names over in America, and that she was formerly a dancer at the old Casino Theatre in New York. "She's done everything," he said: "gone up in balloons, ridden horses astride at Maddison Square Gardens, played the cowboys' show with Buffalo Bill, and sailed an iceboat on the Great Lakes. Whenever she's out to win I'm out to lose.
As the iceboat swept out farther from the shore, the four friends aboard her could see several men running in the same direction. One bore a smoking gun in his hand. "Right towards that rock, Ruthie!" gasped Tom, venturing a glance behind him. "What rock do you mean?" demanded his sister. "The rock where you folks found me the other day. It's near the opening to Jerry's cave. I see them!"
The course of the iceboat was slightly changed, and in less than a quarter of an hour they swept up to the dock attached to Point View Lodge. The sails were lowered and they went ashore to stretch their legs, for sitting on the iceboat rather cramped them. "Might as well take a look around the Lodge while we are here," suggested Jack. "Is there a caretaker here?" asked Andy.
The indignant old lady was far ahead. This was a slight mishap compared with one that now threatened him. A huge iceboat, under full sail, came tearing down the canal, almost paralyzing Ben with the thought of instant destruction. It was close upon him! It had passed within an inch of his shoulder, but he was safe!
It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal, and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially among the timid; but today every iceboat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share.
"We'll have to take along lots of things to eat, for it's a good ways to the store, and we might get snowed in." "That's right," said Charley. "But say, why don't you and Freddie go up in our iceboat, the Ice Bird? It isn't much of a run to Snow Lodge, on the lake, and it's good going now." "I never thought of that!" exclaimed Bert. "I wonder if father would let us?" "You can ask him," said Nan.
"He swung the sail the wrong way." And then he ran off as advised. "Such meanness!" snorted Pepper. "And Coulter may be drowned!" "Ritter was always willing to lay the blame on somebody else," added Andy. The chums skated as closely as possible to where the iceboat was drifting in a sheet of open water a spot where some days before a farmer had been cutting ice.
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