lar, please d

en awakened by the noise and that they were also in a state of terror. Taking advantage of their panic, Bob quickly found his way to the hall an

behind a convenient bush, and he could not resist the temptation to sing out, "Ne

urglary, Bob Golden," came in

uess you'll have a fine time explaining how

time in getting it into the water. Jumping in he bent to the paddle with all his strength and in about a half

never come," said Ja

out of the canoe, and then of cour

e had finished, "Sure and you'

ow," he continued, "it's about 2 o'clock and we must get some sleep for I wa

you wake," proposed Mike, "in case

rve to try to get into the house, but they might try to break into the boathouse to injure

asleep when they heard Mike pounding on the door

It took but a short time to get the Sprite into the

rly, "for the first t

e boys, for if anything was wrong, th

ke, and then jump

nd a second later the Sprite was floating about twenty feet from the shore. Bob at once turned

both Jack and Mi

ading her down the lake. "Now to see

cut through the water, till Jack declared that they were going fully as fast as

out half. But don't it seem

k, "but push her over and le

ugh the water till it seemed to the

eaking for the first time, "but ye'll g

fteen miles an hour if we're going an inch, and the b

esults and confident that they would be able to keep the coveted blue ribbon. As Jack expressed it, "The

er go back now and get s

ed Jack, "I'm hungry enoug

her places of amusement. Past the lake, about a quarter of a mile distant, ran a trolley line, about ten mi

as marked out by buoys and ran down the lake on the east side, up on the west side nea

ve, for the great race was scheduled to start at 3.00, and promp

der engine; the Chum, twenty feet long with fifteen horsepower, and the Rocket, eighteen feet long, equipped with an engine

the shore, then came the Winner, Eagl

hey took their places, but no words passed between them till just before the start,

bet," re

I'll do, I'll make it a hundred dollars or any amo

, and at that moment the starter's

sir," was t

evolver. Instantly nine fly wheels were turned over, but Bob sitt