"Boat ahoy!" came the hail from the deck of the Storm King.
"O, now, let's get away from here!" drawled Tom. "We're discovered."
"Boat ahoy!" shouted the sentinel again. "Better keep off, if you don't want to get into trouble!"
"Don't you be any ways oneasy," replied the chief, who, seeing that they were detected, thought it best to put a bold face on the matter. "We're honest people, an' we're goin' home!"
"Well, you don't live around here," replied the student, "and I tell you that you had better keep away."
"I'd like to know if this yere harbor has got to be private property since you 'cademy fellers brought that boat here," said the governor.
"Corporal of the guard!" shouted the sentinel.
"O, now, we'd better leave, I tell you," drawled Tom. "He's calling the corporal, and the first thing we know we'll get into trouble. We might be captured."
"Not easy. They can't crowd swells enough into that craft to take us," said the chief; but, although he talked very boldly, he evidently thought it best to get a little farther away from the Storm King, for he dropped his oar into the water and sculled from the spot. The crew of the yawl heard a hurrying of feet on the deck of the vessel, as if the students were taking their stations, in readiness to repel an attack; but that soon died away in the distance, and then the governor pulled in his oar and sat down.