pack, left there upon his arrival home earlier in the evening.

sing the door behind him, "

," and El

Eli, and do nothing you'll regret. Don't be too hasty. We suspect Indian Jake, bu

he took un, and he knows. I'm goin' to g

rs of endurance against Nature and the wilderness. He gave no suggestion of boastfulness, but rather

," Doctor Joe suggested. "'Twill be hard to make your way to-night with the wind against yo

ver," Eli stubbornly declared, "an

Flat Point within the hour after sundown. He never could have paddled that distance against a down wind in an hour. The boys and I wer

ok the silver!" Eli insisted. "Good-bye, sir. I

ded. "Don't shoot unless you're fo

ed Eli as he strode away in the darkness, and Doctor

ff rigged with a leg-o'-mutton sail. The wind was against him and with the sail reefed and the mast unstepped and stowed in the bottom of the boat, he

de around Flat Point. Here for a time he lost the friendly shelter of the land, and continuous and tremendous effort was called for in the

anding dead timber, chopped off the butt, and splitting it that he might get at the dry core, whittled some shavings and lighted a fire. His provision bag was well

mple breakfast was eaten Eli again set forward. Presently, however, another long point projected out into the Bay to for

uttered, and settle

t against the wind, and at length he reluctantly dropp

-day," he admitted. "I'll h

ht of perhaps four feet. At intervals of three or four inches he rested the remaining poles against the one lashed to the trees, arranging them at an angle of fifty-five degrees and aligning the butts of the poles

hese he placed directly in front of the shelter and two feet apart, at right angles to the shelter. Across the ends of the logs farthest from his bed he piled three of the green st

m and comfortable. He now removed his rain-soaked jacket and moleskin trousers and suspended

des and chest toward the heat and in the course of an hour succeeded in drying his underclothing to his satisfaction. His moleskin t