“No, but I think it good fun that you got it,” said Harvey; “and I’ll tell you right now that it saved you one from me.”
Harry Brackett eyed Harvey maliciously; but he had a mission to perform, and he was bound to go through with it.
“Say, I know it wasn’t the square thing to lay that upset out there in the bay to you fellows,” he said, with an effort. “But, you see, I knew father would be furious about the boat—and, well, I told him the first thing that came into my head about it. I didn’t think he would try to make trouble for you, though.”
“No?” replied Harvey, skeptically. “Probably you don’t know him as well as some of the rest of us do.”
“Well, here, don’t go yet,” said Harry Brackett, as Harvey started to brush past him. “I’ve got something I want to talk to you about.”
Harvey paused in surprise.
“It’s about the boat,” explained Harry Brackett. “You fellows don’t need two boats—and two such good ones as the Viking and the Surprise—”
Harvey’s wrath broke forth again at the mention of the Surprise.
“That was a fine trick you tried to play on us, stealing the Surprise after we had her up,” he said.
“I didn’t want to do it,” said Harry Brackett. “I told John Hart you fellows must have floated her in there, but he wouldn’t believe it.”