"Not as much as you or I have," announced Donald. "I can no see any connection between the two."
"Of course you can't, old wisdom," returned Jack. "You lack imagination, but I think it is there just the same. Whose horse and wagon was it?"
"That's another strange part of it," replied Rand. "I never saw them before. I was wondering whose they were, and where he got them."
"That's so," agreed Pepper. "I never thought of that; the truth is, I was so busy with Monkey that I didn't look at them."
"Well," broke in Don, "if you ask my opinion I think it would be more to the purpose if we went on our own business instead of wasting time in speculating on what is no concern of ours."
"All right, Solomon-Donald," said Rand; "it sounds wise."
"Even if it is mostly sound," growled Jack.
CHAPTER IV
UP THE RIVER
"Are you all ready?" called Rand, who was stroke. "Pull!"