"You really think so?"
"Oh, cut out the kidding and come along to breakfast. We must tell uncle as soon as possible."
They found their uncle in the dining room just finishing his breakfast and, as he was alone, they at once told him.
"It surely confirms our suspicions," Mr. Lakewood said when they had finished.
"But does it help any?" Bob asked.
"I can't really see that it does," his uncle confessed after a moment's thought.
"Was there any boat in sight when you got up?" Jack asked.
"Not a sign of one."
"Well, I wish he'd been a few minutes later when we started," Bob said. "Then we wouldn't have been bothered with him."
"But there's no use wishing," Jack declared. "We've got him and the only question is what are we going to do with him?"