Billy realized that the On Time might be had. Also that she might be called the Spot Cash. She had lain idle in the harbour since her skipper had gone off to the mines at Sidney to make more money in wages than he could take from the sea. But how charter her?
“Where you goin’ t’ get the stock?” Jimmie Grimm inquired.
“Don’t know whether I can or not,” said Archie; “but I’m going to try my level best.”
Archie Armstrong left for St. John’s by the 193 next mail-boat. He was not the lad to hesitate. What his errand was the Ruddy Cove boys knew well enough; but concerning the prospect of success, they could only surmise. However, Archie wouldn’t be long. Archie wasn’t the lad to be long about anything. What he undertook to do he went right at!
“If he can only do it,” Billy Topsail said.
Jimmie Grimm and Donald North and Bagg stared at Billy Topsail like a litter of eager and expectant little puppies. And Bill o’ Burnt Bay stood like a wise old dog behind. If only Archie could!
As related in “The Adventures of Billy Topsail.”