[CHAPTER XIV]
READY FOR TROUBLE
“Jack, you’re right,” remarked George, after the whole of them had stood there, listening eagerly for a minute or so. “That sounds louder all the time.”
“P’raps the wind’s shifted?” suggested Josh.
“No, I don’t believe it has, even a little bit,” Herb observed, on his part.
“Then what d’ye think it means?” asked Bumpus, who was just as much interested as any one of his boat-mates.
“Why, he changed his course, that’s what,” declared Josh.
“Oh! that’s it, eh?” Bumpus went on to say, “and as he was running up-stream before, why, that means he’s coming down now.”
“Seems like it, Bumpus,” admitted George.