"And take him with us?" asked Wessel.
"Well, you don't think I'm going to chuck him overboard; do you?" demanded Shalleg. "I told you I wasn't going to do anything violent."
"But what are you going to do?"
"Wait, and you'll see," was the rather unsatisfactory answer.
Joe wished it was settled. He, too, was wondering.
The course of the boat seemed changed. By the motion the men were rowing across a choppy current, probably toward shore. Joe found this to be so, a little later, for the boat's side grated against what was probably a wooden pier.
"Light the lantern," directed Shalleg.
"But I thought you didn't want to be seen," objected Wessel.
"Do as I tell you," was the sharp rejoinder. "We're not going to be seen. We're going to leave the boat."
"And leave him in it?" asked the other man.