When you get home, Dannie, make friends with Dave the fust thing you do, an' tell him you was only foolin' when you said you was goin' agin him.

Help him every way you kin, an' when he gits the money we'll show our hands." So saying, Godfrey walked down the path out of sight.

After a few minutes' absence, he came back and handed Dan the money of which he had spoken, a five-dollar bill to be expended for himself at the store, and a one-dollar bill to pay Dan for stealing the canoe.

When Dan had put them both carefully away in his pocket, he went back to the camp after his rifle, and then followed his father through the cane toward the upper end of the island.

They found an abundance of drift wood there, and from it selected two small logs of nearly the same size and length.