It must be confessed that Flapp did
not like the newcomers and hated to have anything to do with them.
But he was too much of a coward to speak up, and so did as Baxter
dictated. Thus is one rascal held under the thumb of another. It was
only when Lew Flapp was among those who were smaller and weaker than
himself that he dared to play the part of the bully.
Dora and Nellie heard the loud talking after the crashing of the
launch into the houseboat and also heard part of what followed. Both
wanted to cry out for assistance, but did not dare, fearing that
something still worse might happen to them.
"They might bind and gag us," said Nellie. "That Dan Baxter is bad
enough to do almost anything."
"Yes, and from the way Lew Flapp treated Dick, I should think he was
almost as wicked as Baxter," answered her cousin.
The girls wondered who the newcomers on board could be, but had no
means of finding out. Nobody came near them, and at last tired nature
asserted itself and both dropped into a troublous doze.
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