"How?"
"By pretending to go to one place, while we can really go to another."
"That's a scheme."
A small tug had been chartered to tow the houseboat, and the captain of this was ordered to be ready for moving at eleven o'clock.
"We shall go to Camdale first," said Dick, naming a place about forty miles away.
"All right, sir—wherever you say," said the tug commander.
Returning to the hotel, the boys found the others finishing breakfast and sat down to their own. They said the Dora was in perfect trim and that the trip down the Ohio was to begin without delay.
"Well, I am sure I am ready," said Nellie. "I am just dying to see the houseboat."
Aleck hurried around to buy the necessary stores, which were taken to the Dora in a wagon, Then two carriages brought down the ladies and the boys and a truck brought along the baggage.
"What a beautiful boat!" cried Dora after going on board. "And how tidy everything is!"