And they can't get any more money this summer." "I guess they must have gotten some already," Bert rejoined.
"Didn't you hear the news about that canoe ?" "What news ?" asked Fred quickly.
"Why, they've engaged Hiram Driggs to put the canoe in good order." "Where did they get the money ?" asked Fred, his brow darkening.
"I don't know," was Bert's rejoinder.

"But they must be able to raise money all right, for Driggs has the canoe down at his yard, and he has promised it to them in a few days." This news came like a slap in the face to the lawyer's son.

He remained with Bert for another hour, but all the time Fred brooded over the fact that Dick & Co.

were to have their canoe after all.
"At that, I don't know that they will have their canoe," Fred remarked darkly to himself as he started homeward.
Shortly after midnight Fred Ripley sneaked away from his home, turning his face in the direction of Hiram Driggs' boatyard..