"Do you think he will deliver that message?" asked Nellie.
"Let us pray Heaven that he does," answered her cousin.
CHAPTER XXX
THE RESCUE—CONCLUSION
The Rovers and the others on the steam tug could scarcely wait for the old man in the dilapidated rowboat to come up alongside.
"You have a message for us?" said Dick. "Hand it over, quick."
"The message says as how you-uns will pay me twenty-five dollars fer delivering of it in twenty-four hours," said the old man, cautiously.
"Who is it from?"
"It is signed Dora Stanhope and Nellie Laning."
"Give it to me—I'll pay you the money," cried Tom.