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Updated: May 6, 2025
We knew what that meant; and to escape another sleepless night in the mosquito lowland, we were ready to take almost any risk. Having critically examined our oar-locks, and carefully ballasted our boats, we pulled into the rough water. The light-keeper shouted encouragingly to us from his high porch, "You'll get across all right, and will have a good camp to-night!"
She was sharp at both bow and stern, and was almost destitute of sheer. There was a little deck at each end, and the usual galvanized-iron oar-locks, without out- riggers, while upon her quarters were painted very small national flags. She was built of white pine, and was very light.
The fact that the oar-locks, which were mere wooden pegs, were worn smooth and shiny, told that the boat had not been long unused. In a short time they found themselves well out from shore in a gently rippling sea, while the point, behind which lay their camp, grew smaller and smaller in the distance. Presently they cleared a wooded point of land and came in view of a short line of beach.
During this night of torture I heard in the distance the sound of oars moving in the oar-locks, and paused for an instant in the battle with the phlebotomists, thinking the "Riddle" might be coming, but all sound seemed hushed, and I returned to my dreary warfare. Not waiting to prepare breakfast the next morning, I left the prairie shore, and rowed rapidly towards Point aux Herbes.
At this Lanyard began to move along the deck, one by one working the mooring lines clear of their cleats and dropping them gently overboard, till but two were left to hold the U-boat in place. Throughout he kept watch upon the manoeuvres of the lieutenant saw him drop over the side of the stage, heard a thump of feet as he landed in a boat, and a subsequent creak of oar-locks.
First, I didn't think anything about it at all, only I noticed that the stain was on the left hand page. Then, all of a sudden I noticed something about that stain that got me all excited. It was in the shape of a ring, kind of. Right away I knew what it meant. I picked up one of my oar-locks and laid it on the stain and it just covered it. So I saw I had damaged the book when I had it before.
And if we stay here, we're also liable to be struck by lightning. Let's leave the boat and make for that farmhouse across the pasture." "I'm afraider of the cow," said Frieda. "But I'll go. We can hide the oars and oar-locks in the bushes." Progress across the pasture was difficult, but when the road beyond was reached, both looked aghast at the muddy stream of it.
"Wake up! wake up! the tide's coming in. Crick et!" Cricket, evidently bewildered, sat up, and looked around her, then grasped the situation. Quickly she pulled down her tent, and restored her skirt to its original use. She unlashed her oars, and adjusted them in the oar-locks. "Push off as soon as you can!" called Edna. "Rock the boat to loosen it." Cricket obeyed instructions.
And that was just the shape of the stain on the bill. I could have laid one of my oar-locks right on that bill and covered up the stain. Maybe you think I was glad to get the bill back but I wasn't. What did I care about that bill? Gee, a two dollar bill isn't anything, compared to a friend, it isn't.
The outposts that had been sent to cover the bank in both directions were now coming in. Through the stillness of the night there sounded the thump of oar-locks. Seeing that the stranger did not seem to take his hint, Lewis raised his voice menacingly: "That's your road back yonder. It's a right good road, and I'd advise you to travel it, fast."
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