“But that means you’ll take ther money if I offer it ter ye?”
“It means nothing of the kind. I will not touch it under any circumstances.”
“Thankee,” said Sullivan, and turned away.
The men now went to work fending the logs off from the shore, and the whole of them went through the rapids in a hurry.
Nightfall was not far away, but the delay at the jam had prevented the men from reaching a camp further down the river, where they had expected to spend the night.
Sullivan consulted with Forest about a stopping place, and word was sent up for the raft to be started and sent through the rapids before dark, if possible.
Frank and his friends were eager to shoot the rapids on the raft, and so they made all haste to meet it some distance up the river. They did so, and were taken on board in the wangan boat.
The raft had been cut in two before they were taken on, and it went through the rapids in two sections, being kept in the deep water near the western shore.
It was sport to shoot the rapids, but it was not quite so exciting as the breaking of the jam.