The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; Or, The Secret of the Island Cave

to the stick of lumber, but his hands were numb and withou

ger," was his dismal thought

expanse of water, with here and there a solitary stick of lumber.

d," he thought. "Heaven h

As the waves went down he changed his position on the log, and this gave him temporary relief. Soon the sun made his head ache, and he b

e was now too weak to pull himself up. "It's the end," he thought bitte

over! Is

n another log, and as the two sticks bumped together he caught

on any-any longe

d of a boat is bound to

nu-numb

ue-I'm numb myself.

ick continued to hold on, and a few minut

r! Saved

am had hailed was approaching, the castaways hav

observed Captain

" returned the mate. "He must be the

than l

eight steamer drew closer, and

and then made the discovery that th

and caught the youth just as

r. But it was accomplished at last, and, still unconscious, he

ture, and his chief anxiety was for his friend

Rollow was viewed with much astonishment

were Arnold Baxt

do, and it may be as well to state right here that they were bound East in order

will be disclosed a

Dan Baxter, after having seen th

ow it," whispere

e wasn't drown

ead, and we'll have to keep out o

d the bully, for, as old readers kno

sees us he may-ahem-ma

ngs in Colorado? What

s, Dan, you must rememb

ate are sti

ven't forg

e left Detroit," went on Arnold Baxter. "But I hated to put the

put the

ow my real looks. I will have

know what he is

ure trip, m

hed one of the mates of the freighter, who had just

fellow getting on?"

shape," was

think he

y out of his mind. The hot sun, coming aft

? Doesn't he rec

cries out to be pulled from the wate

n Baxter hypocritically.

ht a couple of hours ago. A lumber raft struck the yacht and the

who was save

e strangers;" and with this remark the

ther of what he had heard. Ar

enough," he said. "I presume they'll put him

where that

left her mi

will we reac

ur, so I heard one of

father and son set to thinking deeply, and the

amer was about to make

touched his

r ashore, let us go ash

Dan's answer. "Was you thinking,

es

can't do it-if he is

quick, for more than likely his brothers will

freight for Cleveland, so t

ought up on a cot, st

stepped

aid to Captain Jasper. "If there is anything I can

ng through to Buffalo," retu

attended to. I'll take the train for Buffalo to-morrow. If you want me t

d one, and relieved Capt

"It isn't everyone who would p

rnold Baxter. "And I know how miserab

will take him until his bro

tution. I will see to it that he gets to a firs

, and then Dick was carried

was ready to leave, and a minut

ooked around and saw on

Luke Peterson, wh

asked the lumbe

open for that yacht,"

ere are you going t

n there, and can easily get him a good r

he yacht, I'll send his broth

driver of the coach. "To the Commercial Hotel," he wen

er leaped in and banged the door shut. Soon the coach was moving away from

e Commercial Hotel," observed Dan,

as Arnold Baxter's reply. "We g

s,

he future, Da

o far as knowing an

ains so, for a

tly came to a halt in front of t

Baxter to his son and to the coach drive

he spent a few minutes in loo

o the coach. "I've a good mind to take him to some private hospital, after all.

es

e us to th

, and it took half an hour to reach it. It was an old-fashioned building surrounded by a h

mmons, and ushered him

d-up, bald-headed,

r you, sir?" he asked

nted to meet," tho

er, and saw that Dr. Karley wou

d men, put there by their relatives merely to get them out of the way, and an old

ducing himself as Mr. Arnold. "A young friend of mine has been almost dro

l, I

for your services," w

e him wi

f his head on account of exposure to the water and the hot sun. I think a

bed his head. "I will go

er room of the sanitarium, lying on a comfort

Baxter had gone out and

stand down by th

I had just brought down a passenger when you ha

a carriage, and I will hire that later on,

, sir; the

t of sight Arnold Baxt

"I don't believe the Rovers will find thei