“So are we, but that doesn’t raise our boat.”
“I suppose not.”
“What are you going to do about it?”
For a moment Will and Fred whispered together.
“We think you were as much to blame as we were for not backing up when you saw us coming,” Will finally said.
“Can you beat it?” Jack whispered.
“All right. We’ll let it go at that,” Bob said as he turned toward the cottage closely followed by Jack.
Neither Will or Fred made any further statement, but at once started up their boat and, after making a broad turn, headed down the lake.
“Guess you saved my life for sure that time, son,” Bob said as he threw his arm about his brother’s neck.
“Thank God I had the strength to do it. I tell you it was nip and tuck for a minute,” and he told Bob how he had found him. “But what happened to you?”