"What on earth do you mean?"
"Wring yourself dry, and we'll talk."
CHAPTER VI
A SCRAP OF PAPER
Pratt had just stripped off his clothes, and spread them to dry, when Warrender arrived in the dinghy.
"What's the game, you chaps?" he inquired. "Why a second bath, Pratt?"
"Eyes left!" responded Pratt. "The sight of my habiliments basking in the sunlight will inform you that I have just been performing a cinema stunt--plunging fully clothed into the boiling torrent to rescue the heroine, whom the villain----"
"Dry up!" said Armstrong.
"Just what I am trying to do. But you are bursting with information, old chap. Expound. I am all ears."
"You tied up the boat as usual, Warrender?" Armstrong asked.