The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island

n wrecked and as the boys ran down to the shore they saw t

the mate in response to the question

is words as they both climbed into th

s he grasped the oars and headed the

et us drive before the wind. We

he boat when we tried to land. Th

h?" laug

pretty nearly t

s you get to things, is

u know wh

ng as you're both safe. The capta

aid we would be caps

id you would go into the water and he knew you

ly. "Here comes our recent hos

ge was seen approaching in a skiff. Just where his boat had been kept was not plain to either of the

Fred, "or he's after us. John, did you take an

I had already taken i

ion between him and the captain, which lasted only a few minutes. What was said could not be heard by the boys, although John

his companion, laughed silently as he saw

st as if it had been hurled forward by some powerful and unseen hand the gra

another in amazement. The water seemed almost to rise and be parted by the bow. It rushed past them with a noise that was loud and almost confusing. Still the speed of the Gadabout

cottages along the road were shining in the evening darkness. There was yet time, however, for the boys to obtain dinn

and as he did so his companions saw that

as he seated himself at the

d received from the clerk on his way to the dining-room, h

eal Canada. This man make her Business in this Way. he order her goods to come from Paris france to Montreal Canada and ther he pay duty Very Cheap and then he express her goods to the boarderings of the untied States and then he took the Said goo

ully you

can B

emanded John as he extended hi

nk of it," laughed Fred.

Grant. "I don't believe even

. "At least the directions are to

which Fred had received when at last they withdrew from the dinin

the hotel approached the group and said to Fred, "I thi

e anyway. Is this the letter?" he added, as he held forth the e

her man here, whose name is almost like yours. He is Mr. Ferdinand Button. That letter wa

ss it belongs to Ferdinand, so you had better take it and give it to him." Laughing

the boys who were still seated and said, "One of you, I

he spoke. "My name is Fred Button and the clerk said

he stranger, "and the letter

ered Fred. "I didn't suspect until I had done

ion Fred noted the bearing of th

ck intelligence that enabled him to perceive many a thing which his younger companions might have lost. The stranger

n here long?"

this m

aps you had bee

spend much of my time on the lake. I am sorry you had the misf

ughingly. "It was signed 'American Brother' and was simpl

as he spoke the four boys were aware that he inte

dth of his shoulders and the evidences of strength

guess that man could tell so

o," said George. "I kn

lans for the following day and then when two hours had elapsed all four b

hen he first went down to the lobby to dis

press his surprise at the unexpected meeting. The stranger, however, turned abruptly away. Abashed by the action Joh

lerk John said,

clerk. "I have seen him her

e you been coming h

urt

saw this man un

. W

idea somehow that he belonged to this part of the

"This is the first summer he ha

time he has shown up at yo

mean just what I say, that this is the fir

been mistaken? Was not this the man who had received them in his strange house on Cockburn Island the preceding day? If any questions concerning the identity o

re John was standing and declaring that they were hungry dem