“About Noddy Nixon. He’s coming back. His father has fixed everything up, I understand.”
“You don’t say so!” exclaimed Ned. “Well, he’s got nerve after what he did to us, trying to rob us of the mine and putting those Mexicans up to kidnap Bob. I’d like to give him a good threshing.”
“I’ll bet he’ll make trouble for us,” said Bob. “I’ll be worried about our motor boat all the while it’s on the river, as long as Noddy Nixon is in town.”
“Nonsense, he’ll not interfere with us any more,” came from Jerry.
“Well, I’m no calamity howler,” put in Bob, “but I’ll bet we are going to have more trouble with Noddy.”
And after events showed that Bob had guessed rightly.
[CHAPTER II]
THE MOTOR BOAT
The boys found Mr. Jaeger so busy hauling all sorts of freight and merchandise from the depot and other parts of Cresville that he could not promise to go after the boat that day.