"
"It's a wretched piece of business," came from Dick. "Oh, if I can
only lay my hands on them they shall suffer for it!"
"We must chase the houseboat, that's all I know to do," put in Tom.
"And the quicker we begin the better."
"That's easily said, Tom. How are we going to locate the craft in
this mist? She may have gone up the stream and she may have gone down."
"More than likely she went down with the current. They hadn't any
steam tug handy to pull her."
Paul Livingstone was appealed to and told them where they could find
the coal docks at which their own tug was lying. All hurried to the
place and called up Captain Carson.
"I'll get up steam just as soon as I can," said the tug captain, and
hustled out his engineer and fireman. Soon the black smoke was pouring
from the tug's stack and in less than half an hour they were ready
to move.
"This seems like a wild-goose chase," remarked Sam. "But it is better
than standing around with one's hands in his pockets."
"I wish I had dat Dan Baxter heah!" said Aleck Pop.
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