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 "Do you mean that I have been sailing under false colors?" cried Joe, indignantly. "If you throw out any more insinuations of that sort before we reach the boat-house I'll dump you in the lake. When the judge questioned me I told him the truth; and I wouldn't have done otherwise to please any body."

Something must have warned Tom that Joe would be as good as his word, for he had nothing more to say to him. He gradually fell behind and allowed him to paddle down to the boat-house in peace.