The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence

and Howard still on board, headed her into the current. At a signal

e animals were not far away. In fact, as they paused to investigate the ugly nose of the bulldog was pus

g and striking at each other, playfully. No more shots were heard, but presently a great tramping in the undergrowth came at the point where Joe and Teddy had

" asked Fontenelle, as the bulldog and the bear cub were assis

ptain Joe and Teddy would be there with them. No, it is my opinion that it is Alex making all

be correct, for the undergrowth parted ag

nkling his freckled nose. "Do

and lost the rowboat. And where is the two-foot fish you

r edged toward the bank, "if we have l

mean by that?

the Rambler and looked down upon the fragile

Max getting away without being seen or heard. He never stopped to get his boat, and m

elle laughed. "I have seen them remain under water for what se

r," cried Clay, "and

ur boat?" d

rted for the St. Lawrence by the water route, but when ruffians on t

river. Clay caught the rope deftly and one by one the boys paddled over to the

ly, "that you'd welcome me on t

le," Case laughed, "I'll meet you on

ontenelle and Howard and then prep

d tied up the cook. We were thinking of getting breakfast there, but we prefe

tied up yet

replied, "for they seemed to be about three steps behin

se asked, as the boys sat down to a breakfast of bacon, eggs

wo. We lost two on the Amazon, one on the Columbia, two on the Colorado and had th

grinned. "You go o

there and swipe that boat from under their noses. But you needn't

cribed to them, and after a time Case beckoned Clay away to a corner of the cabin and a

wer this question right off the handle. I've decided it half a dozen

e question?

ly the legend of the lost channel and the loss of the charter and the family jewels in th

ds of the elder Fontenelle, for a sort of a vacation. So far as I can make out, they have never honestly search

what your question is. You want to know if we ought to show Fon

case fully," Case declared. "But you haven't told me wha

us. It wasn't intended for us. It was handed to us by a man wh

It is my idea that he doesn't even care whether he secures the lost property or not. He won't consider the matter serio

btedly right,"

blood. Besides, I'd like to have a look at that lost channel. Lost channels appeal to

too, and the whole event would deteriorat

to Quebec, and Montreal, and the Thousand Islands, and then come

on at once if it is a sure thing that we come back, but I don't wan

with these toughs on the wharf at Quebec, and," he added, more seriously, "that's where I think

Jule and Alex are willing, we'l

, the two boys went back to their gues

oat up and blunder through the briers, when he might paddle

on up the stream in the canoe. Presently h

the boys did not sail away in the afternoon. As a matter of fact, as the reader already knows, the boys had decided to leave before

t. Lawrence river from the Gulf to Lake Ontario, and were determin

back with the rowboat, havin

ter them," Alex said, pointing from the Rambler to the Carti

ntenelle of their intention to proceed on their jou

unlight, and the shipping passing to and fro on the river made a pleas

headed for a little cove to avoid the wash of a giant steamer, "and

go down on the docks and find that boy Max. And when I

ed Case. "You'd get lost on South Clark str

find myself agai

, it took two boys and a bear and a bulldog to find you

y struggle on the deck, in which T

th bank of the St. Lawrence. They put up their hammocks, anc

kings or strayed family jewels hiding about here," Jule

scriptions on the river until nine o'clock, then went to sleep with a danger signal swinging

slowly up the river until night, enjoying the wild scenery and stopping now and then at a little settlement. That was

y standing guard. Alex was out after fish early in the morning, and at six

hin sight of Quebec and moored at a

s or river pirates appear to us during the night, we'll

il we get to the Thousand Islands," declared

down the rapids, wo

plied Clay. "We'll co

sted, "because we'll lose t

s myriad lights from plateau and cliff, and the boys were not sure of whom they might meet during the d

the man who delivered the map to us is thinking about concerning his mistake now. He might

ed the warning to us are thinking concerning themselves. They wasted

st channel," Case suggested. "Do you know," he added, "I'm looking

there's a lost channe

ase asserted. "Men don't draw

o drew the map go and tell

he delivered the map to us, but as you

o, until nearly ten o'clock and then turned to go to the boat. When they cam

ispered, "What do y

?" asked Ca

he head of the pier?" asked Alex,

loose packing in his head to-nigh

ax, the wharf rat, the cable cutter, the

"He'd have a flock of wharf rat

and see where he goes, anyway. If we can locat

se chuckled, "because he's heading for that eat

they were seated at a little table in an alcove separated only by a he

ir orders and sat watching the main

ly said in a whispe

rf rats with him. I guess they've got us in as