What did you do with the fellows ?" "What fellows ?" asked Perry, puzzled, as Cas pulled the dingey alongside the cruiser.
"Why, Bert and Wink and the rest of them." "Haven't seen 'em." "Haven't?
Where'd you get the boat, then ?" "What boat ?" "That one! The one you're in! Say, are you dippy ?" "This is our boat and I got it--" "Your boat nothing! That's our boat, you silly chump! Think I don't know our own tender ?" "Wh-what!" gasped Perry.

"So it is! Then, where's mine! I mean ours?
How did I get this one ?" "Search me! If you don't know, I'm blessed if I do," chuckled Caspar Temple.

"You must remember something that's happened since yesterday morning!" "Han and I went ashore," said Perry, staring puzzledly at the milk-can from which a tiny stream was trickling past the loosened stopper.

"Then we went to look for our boat and I found this and I yelled to him and he didn't come and so I started back to the boat to get some--" Perry suddenly remembered his affliction.

"Say, got any alcohol ?" he asked anxiously.
"Alcohol?
I don't know.