"You need have no fear. I only made them give you that cigar to keep you quiet. It was just opium. A little of it hurts nobody. I want to be a friend to you, Ed. Now let me tell you that it was all a surprise to me when I found who it was those two fellows had captured last night, but when I saw you it occurred to me that you being such, a bully swimmer and diver, that you were just the fellow I wanted—see?"
Wily Pow Chow!
He had touched Ed on his weak point, interesting him at once.
For Ed had a record for swimming, and particularly for diving.
It was his hobby and his pride.
Of course, he at once began to wonder in what direction his talents in this line were to be displayed.
"Use me how?" he asked.
"You remember those papers?" pursued Pow Chow.
"What Ethel stole from my father?"
"Yes."