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"Did the men kill the fish when they upset?" asked Violet. "No, the men got the fish out of their nets," explained George, who had been at the seashore every summer that he could remember. "There are the nets out where you see those poles," and he pointed to a place about a half mile off shore. "The men go out there in a big motor-boat," he went on, "and pull up the net.
They drove the canoe out into the open river, but only just for a look up its expanse. There was no motor-boat in sight or hearing not even the distant lights of one. The current was so strong that the Cameron twins went back among the islands where the water was smoother.
"He is doing nothing of the kind. It is a signal." Ruth told Helen swiftly more of that early morning incident she and Chess Copley had observed when they saw the boxes carried ashore from the motor-boat. "Seems to me," grumbled Helen, "you have a lot of adventures with 'Lasses Copley, Ruth." "Your own fault that you don't," returned her chum promptly. "You could have been along.
"If the Varmint II wins I think I shall need somebody to brace me up." At that moment, however, the voice of the judge was heard and when he announced that by a margin of only six inches the Black Growler had won the cup, a shout went up from the crew of the little racing motor-boat that was heard above the din that followed the award.
And now the moon, not the sun, cast its paler glitter between the high dark banks of the stream. It was a keen-eared young Lur who first heard afar the pant of the mysterious jinni. Before he or his companions descried the motor-boat, however, Gaston, rounding a sharp curve above the island of Umm-un-Nakhl, caught sight of the sweeps of the barge flashing in the moonlight.
"But," we said, "they assured us that they had telegraphed from Scutari." The telegraph clerk was brought, and denied that any message had come. "Anyhow," said the governor, "the motor-boat is for Albanian soldiers only, and has gone twenty minutes ago. I can do nothing for you without authority from Durazzo."
Here!" "There's something more wonderful!" he said, indicating with his cane the canal before them, where a group of neat, poorly dressed, lower middle-class people looked proudly out from their triumphal progress in the ugly, gasping little motor-boat which operates at twenty-five centimes a trip. She had not walked and talked a month with him for nothing.
During the three last days the automobile, like a motor-boat fighting the tide, had crept through a gray-green river of men, stained, as though from the banks, by mud and yellow clay.
"Bien, m'sieu," came the answer, and presently the motor-boat was dexterously edging her way through the throng till she emerged into a clear space and purred briskly towards the shore. Once more the Englishman's hand closed firmly round Ann's as he helped her out on to the little landing-stage. "Good-bye," she said, a trifle nervously. "And thank you so much for coming to my rescue."
It was such a sound as the Boy Scouts had heard on the rivers of South America, when the advance of their motor-boat was blocked, and hundreds of savages were peering out of the thickets. "What is it?" asked Jack. "Sounds like the roaring of a mob," answered the officer. "You understand that a word will stir the natives to arms against foreigners.
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