"All right; we will take our chances," replied one of the students; and this was the prevailing sentiment.
"Although I think we were right in the beginning, I am afraid we are overdoing the matter. But what could we do?" continued our general, with energy. "We couldn't stay on that island and be starved out. We paid for the provisions with our own money, and they had no right to take them from us."
"No!" shouted the boys, indignantly.
"Now we have the steamer; what shall we do with her?"
"Let us go on a cruise," suggested Fred Mason.
"I did not take possession of the boat with the intention of making any use of her only to get away from the island while it was possible to do so," replied Vallington.
"O, let's have some fun in her, now we have got her," added Mason.
"We are drifting over to Cannondale pretty rapidly, general," I interposed. "We must go ahead, or we shall run ashore."
"I don't exactly know what to do, or where to go," continued our perplexed leader.
"We must go ahead now, and settle that question by and by," I added.