IN WHICH PHIL SAILS THE MARIAN ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN.
"Where are you going now, Philip?" asked Miss Collingsby.
"I am obliged to chase Mr. Whippleton. I told you what he had been doing. He has swindled your father out of a large sum of money, and he has also robbed me of a valuable package, which was put in my care for safe keeping. I must catch him if I follow him all night."
"You are very faithful to my father's interests. I didn't think Mr. Whippleton was such a bad man."
"Your father did not think so, either," I continued; and I explained to her in full the financial operations of the junior partner.
"Do you expect to catch him, Philip?"
"I mean to do so."
"What can you do with him? He is a man, and you are but a boy—excuse me, a young man."
"I don't object to being called a boy, for I am one; but I think I am a match for Mr. Whippleton, physically."
"I think you are, after your battle with Mr. Waterford, who is larger than Mr. Whippleton. But what am I to do?"