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I had been mistaken; Kirby had not fled down the river; instead he had craftily waited this chance to attack us at a disadvantage. Convinced that we would decide to make use of the rowboat, which he had left uninjured for that very purpose, and that we would venture forth just so soon as the night became dark enough, he had hidden the stolen craft in some covert along shore, to await our coming.
It was out of the question for both men to try to ride in the little rowboat, and the shores on each side afforded no foothold, after half the length of the rapids was passed. Russell would not leave Monett behind to shoot the rapids alone in the boat. Attempt to Lower Boat through Rapids.
"Wait -Snap will make them toe the mark," answered the smaller youth. "He said he would do it before he left." During the afternoon the two boys took the rowboat and also some lines and a drag-net and rowed over to the vicinity of Humpback Rock, where the tipping over had occurred. "You can see how shallow the water is here," said Shep. "We ought to find at least some of our things."
"Well, I couldn't say it is common, but forty odd years in and around this harbour afford one some queer sights. But here we are." The boatman swung his craft around and drew it up by the side of a tugboat which was lying at its wharf. It did not take long to lift the woman from the rowboat up to the deck above. "Have you a light?" Douglas enquired.
We are going to have near neighbors," answered Harriet, unshipping the oar and tying the rowboat to the scow. "Of course, you do not know who they are?" "Yes, I do. It is George Baker and his friends." A chorus of exclamations greeted this announcement. "They have come over here to find us. I think we will play our second trick on them to-night. It won't do to wait until to-morrow.
It was a curious flat-bottomed affair with square ends and resembled a scow more than a rowboat, but it served its purpose well enough, and was doubtless the first craft which the young adventurer, later to become a master mariner, ever commanded.
"There, there, girls," reproved Miss Elting. "That will do. Harriet, I think you and I had better dress, then get into the rowboat and do a little investigating. Perhaps some prowler has visited the boat while we were asleep. Light the lamp, Jane, and we'll see if all our belongings are safe." Jane and Hazel made a rapid search about the boat while Harriet and Miss Elting were dressing.
We shall have to desert the ship." "In what, a rowboat?" asked Frank, with some sarcasm. "Hardly," returned von Ludwig; "but I have discovered that there is a high-powered motor boat aboard. We can launch that and move off." "And as soon as the Germans break out here, they'll come after us and shoot us full of holes," said Harris. "Well, that's true enough, too," agreed von Ludwig.
Guess we'd better wait a minute." The rowboat drew closer and Frank discovered it was filled with men. "Boat crowded with men, sir," he exclaimed. "So!" exclaimed von Ludwig. "Then I guess we won't wait, after all. You may get under way, Mr. Templeton." With this order von Ludwig took his place beside Frank at the wheel and produced a chart. The bell in the engine room tinkled.
More shots followed; and ducks, quacking loudly, fluttered up out of the marshes. Later, when we were at breakfast, a long rowboat, containing a man and a pile of brush and doubtless some ducks with the fine flavour of the forbidden, came out from a break in the marshes and went hurriedly up the stream.
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