“Yes, I don’t believe a word of that. I rather think that they intended to see how near they could come to us without hitting and shaved it too close.”
“They shaved it close all right. Suppose we can make them pay for our boat?”
“I doubt it. You see their word will be as good as ours and I don’t think anyone else saw it. No, I guess we’ll have to just take our medicine and let it go at that. We’ve done it before.”
“I’ll say we have, but, believe me, once more will be too many.”
“Well, we’ll hope it won’t happen again.”
“It better hadn’t.”
For an hour the two boys talked about the accident and wondered how badly their boat was injured.
“Wait till I get the water glass and a buoy to mark the place and I’ll be with you,” Jack said as he swung himself out of the hammock.
“Must have been about here don’t you think,” he asked a little later as he rested on his oars.
“I should say so. I happen to remember that we were right out from that clump of cedars before they hit us but I’m rather hazy as to how far out.”