“If he can’t nothing can,” Jack added.
CHAPTER XII
THE SIGNAL.
“What in the name of common sense did you want to tell them we were going after Sicum for?”
It was still early when they returned to their cabin after breakfast and Jack asked the question as soon as he had closed the door behind him.
“I had a reason and I’ll tell you about it while we’re on the way. We must get a couple hours’ sleep now,” Bob replied as he threw himself on the bed and was almost instantly lost to the world.
They had asked Jacques to call them at nine o’clock and shortly after that hour they were paddling down the lake. Bob was in the stern and, as soon as they had rounded the point just below the camp, instead of heading for the dam he turned the canoe in toward the shore.
“Hey, what’s the big idea?” Jack asked.
Bob did not reply until the bow of the canoe scraped on the sand, then he said:
“You wanted to know why I told the folks where we were going?”
“Sure I do.”