About ten days after, Mrs.C., his employer sent him to escort her son to the house of a relative living in Lawrenceburg, a village a few miles up the river from Pittsburgh.

She warned Paul to be careful of her little boy, who was a delicate child about his own age and gave him street car fare to pay his way up and down.

Her last instructions were to leave Harvey at his aunt's and return as soon as possible.

When Paul was about to take the car back, he thought of a pleasanter way, one in which he could save his car fare, too.

So he went to the river where he selected a large sized plank and a piece of driftwood for a paddle.