It would mean transportation for him." "After all, some one may have gone off with the boat.

We can't tell.
It was there all right when we saw it, wasn't it ?" Dick looked at his friend.

He could delude himself up to a certain point, but this plea wouldn't quite wash.
"Most likely they'll find it.

It may have drifted round to Birkens, or some place like that.

It'll be all right, Georgie." But the thoughts of that unlucky boat haunted their peace.