"Going, eh?" said the rich youth.
"Yes."
"Humph!" murmured Bob Bangs, and that was all he said.
Despite the steady rain, Randy walked rapidly to the town—doing this that he might not take cold. Once at the town he hurried to the steamboat landing.
"Hullo, where did you come from?" exclaimed the dock master, who knew him well.
"From a bath," answered Randy with a laugh, and then said he had fallen overboard from the Helen Shalley just before the landing at Catskill was made.
"Nobody said anything about it," said the dock master.
"I guess they didn't know it," answered our hero.
"What are you going to do now?"
"Telegraph to Captain Hadley and then stay in town until the boat comes back to-morrow."