“Here’s some meat if ye git hongry while I’m gone. Mind ye stay on the planks!”
With this final warning, Joe paddled away and soon was lost to view behind the tall bushes.
CHAPTER
16
TREED BY A BOAR
Left to themselves, Penny and Louise walked a few steps on the sagging planks which had been nailed to tree stumps. The boards beneath them creaked protestingly and dipped nearly into the water.
“We must have been crazy!” Louise exclaimed. “We’ll die of boredom waiting here. Two hours too!”
“It is a long time.”
“And if Joe shouldn’t come back, we’re stranded—absolutely stranded.”
“We did take a chance, Louise, but I’m sure Joe can be trusted.”
“He seems all right, but what do we really know about him?” Louise argued. “If anything queer is going on here in the swamp, he may be mixed up in it!”
“I thought about that,” Penny admitted. “Anyway, if we’re to learn anything, we had to take a certain amount of chance. I’m sure everything will be all right.”