“That’s so; and Lowington would have put us in the brig.”
“I don’t exactly like to explain the reason why we didn’t go on board last night; I always was a bashful fellow.”
“You didn’t go with the others,” said a man, coming up to them at this moment, and speaking in broken English.
“What others? Where?” replied Scott.
“The other students. They took the steamer up the canal at two o’clock this morning.”
“Whew!” whistled Scott. “We have lost Göta Canal and the falls.”
“They will return to-night by the railroad from Wenersberg,” added the man, who was an agent of the canal steamers.
“That’s too bad!” exclaimed Laybold, as the man walked away.
“I don’t know that it is too bad. Our leave would have been stopped if we had gone on board,” laughed Scott, who generally took the most cheerful view of any disagreeable subject. “Why can’t we go on our own hook?”
“I like that idea,” added Laybold.