"Can you prove this, Phil Courtney?" asked Grit.
"If you will row up alongside, I will satisfy your curiosity."
Jesse pulled his boat alongside, and Phil drew from his vest pocket a paper and handed it to Grit.
"Read that," he said.
Grit read as follows:
"In consideration of five dollars, to me paid, I make over and sell the boat called the Water Lily to Philip Courtney.
Nathan Brandon."
"There!" said Philip triumphantly, "what have you to say now?"
CHAPTER XV. GRIT ENGAGES ANOTHER BOAT.
When Phil displayed the bill of sale, made out in due form by Brandon, Grit was for the moment taken aback.