[XXI. “A NICE, QUIET EXCURSION”]
The River Motor Boat Boys on the Amazon
CHAPTER I.—ALL READY FOR THE AMAZON
The opening of a door cast an oblong shape of light over the forward deck of a motor boat, against which an April rain drummed fast or slow, as the uncertain wind came in swift gusts or died down to whispers. As the illumination traveled past the splashed deck, bringing out a pier and a warehouse, and a sluggish current pushing and fussing against the piles of a pier farther down, the tousled heads of two boys appeared outlined against the ruddy doorway. In a moment their voices cut through the wind and rain.
“Jule? Oh, Jule!” one of them shouted.
“Last call for dinner in the main cabin, young man!” added the other.