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Then Tom stepped upon it, but the snake squirmed loose and uttered another hiss, louder than before. "Take him off! Take him off!" screamed Sam, now recovering his voice. "Don't let him bite me." He would have caught the snake himself, and so would Tom, but the hands of both were still tied behind them. By this time Captain Langless emerged from the cave, pulling out a pistol as he did so.
It was no easy matter to find the location of the Peacock, and equally difficult to get Dick on board without observation. But Captain Langless had wisely sent his men to a neighboring saloon, so the coast was tolerably clear. Once Dick was in the cabin, Arnold Baxter left him in Dan's charge and hurried back to the sanitarium with the turnout.
In the meantime Captain Langless summoned his sailors and told them they would sail at early dawn half-past four. Locking the door of the cabin and putting the key in his pocket, Dan Baxter turned up the light and then looked at Dick, who lay half propped up in a chair. "I guess I'll wake him up," he muttered, and going over to the helpless youth he pulled his nose vigorously.
"And what is the next move?" "We'll take Rover on board to-night, and then set sail direct for Detroit and Lake Huron. Langless knows an island in Lake Huron which will give us just the hiding place we want." "And after that?" "I'll send a letter to Anderson Rover which will sicken him to the heart and make him do just as I demand. He thinks the world of his oldest son." "Good for you, dad!
Arnold Baxter was absent the best part of the morning, but came home with a face which showed he was well satisfied with what he had accomplished. "I fell in luck," he explained. "Ran across a man I used to know years ago Gus Langless a sly old dog, up for anything with money in it.
Here were two of the enemy on one side and one on the other, cutting off their escape in both directions. More than this, Captain Langless now raised his voice, and presently several rough-looking sailors came rushing into the cabin. "Leave the hold," cried the owner of the schooner to the Baxters. "I reckon I know how to manage 'em." Arnold Baxter understood, and at once took his son by the arm.
"We ought to have kept this game all in our own hands from the start," said the former bully of Putnam Hall. "We made a rank mistake to take Captain Langless into our confidence." "I won't care if only we make Anderson Rover pony up that money," answered the father. "I'm afraid the mine scheme will have to fall through." "What did you strike him for in cash?" "Ten thousand dollars."
The boys may have been taken to another part of the island, from which Langless can transfer them to the schooner later." "What, and desert us!" groaned the bully. "Yes, and desert us. I think we were foolish to leave the Peacock without taking the captain or Cadmus along. I won't trust any of them any longer." "Well, what shall we do, dad; go back?" "It's too late now.
"And you will be treated as such," answered Captain Langless, glad that there would be no struggle. "Come into the cabin and stack those weapons in the corner. They were never meant for anything but wall decorations," and he laughed somewhat nervously. The three lads entered the cabin and put down the weapons. They kept their eyes on the captain and his men, but there was no move to molest them.
At the announcement that a schooner looking like the Peacock was in sight he ran on deck with all speed, and caught up a glass belonging to the owner of the steam tug. "It's the Peacock, sure," he cried. "See anything o' that Captain Langless or them Baxters?" asked Luke Peterson. "I see somebody, but we are too far off to make out their faces."
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