Always we headed toward the northeast end of the lake, and hence toward Buffalo.
Why, I wondered, did the captain persist in following this route?
He could not intend to stop at Buffalo, in the midst of a crowd of boats and shipping of every kind.

If he meant to leave the lake by water, there was only the Niagara River to follow; and its Falls would be impassable, even to such a machine as this.

The only escape was by the Detroit River, and the "Terror" was constantly leaving that farther behind.
Then another idea occurred to me.

Perhaps the captain was only waiting for night to return to the shore of the lake.

There, the boat, changed to an automobile, would quickly cross the neighboring States.