"Probably you took me away before the cure was effected; but as I always was magnanimous, I shall forgive you this time."
There was a continuous fire of conversation, which cheered the patients, and added greatly to their store of knowledge.
Harry, who had been outside, rushed in, and exclaimed excitedly:
"Did you have Investigator's Lifeboat No. 3?"
"Yes," exclaimed the boys.
"Who wrote the note we found in it?"
"Did you find our boat? Where did you get it?" asked Robert.
"We found it on a river to the north of this place."
"How in the world did it ever get there?"
"But who wrote the note?"