"They may set a guard;" suggested Ike Akley.
"If they do we'll have to make him a prisoner and gag him."
"When shall we start?" asked one of the boys.
"Let us dry ourselves by the campfire first," said Ham. "And we may as well get something to eat too, for there is no telling how long we'll be gone."
This suggestion was considered a good one, and the whole crowd went back to the camp. While some changed their wet clothes for dry, others prepared a meal and this all took time in eating. Then all hands went down to the raft and embarked for the other side of the lake.
CHAPTER XXIV
OUT ON A SAND BAR
The stars had gone under a cloud and out on the lake it was so dark that Snap and his chums could not see twenty feet in any direction.
"We are going to have our own troubles finding our camp," he said, after about a quarter of the distance across Lake Narsac had been covered.
"It's as black as a stack of cats," murmured Whopper. "Has anybody got a lantern?"