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So unpromising did the weather beyond the keys look, and so congenial seemed the lagoon and this sheltered islet, the captain came to the conclusion that it would not be amiss if they should linger there a day or two longer than they had planned. After all, Alec's father had set no time limit for the cruise and the boys were in no hurry to return to Santario.
I've had about enough of the salt water, anyway. When we get Hugh back, me for the choo-choo cars home to Santario!" It was a natural impatience, and some of the boys shared it for the time being. They might change their minds later, they agreed, but at present most of them were of Dave's opinion of the cruise "Heap much trouble, not much fun."
Not many hours later, they reached Alec's home in Santario, and there they found Mr. Sands, waiting a little anxiously for their safe return. He had learned from the morning papers that the previous night's storm had been severe at sea, and he had not known how or where the Arrow might have weathered the gale.
So they left the scene of their adventures, and glided swiftly away "on the home stretch," as Chester called it, under cloudless skies. It was not until the second day of the voyage back toward Santario that Hugh felt quite himself again.
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