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 that. I'm going out this afternoon a little. We'll see about a boat, eh? You can stand it?"

"A hundred, yes—perhaps one-fifty."

"All right, old boy! You saved me, yes, sir."

That afternoon Urleigh and Gost rode down to the ferry in a jitney, and crossed on the ferry to the sandbar opposite. Luck was with them. Two youths who had started down the river in a new little shantyboat, to make their fortune trapping and feather hunting, had been caught killing game against the now resident law, and they were flat broke, discouraged, and anxious to go home to God's country. For sixty dollars Urleigh obtained a two-hundred-dollar boat and a hundred dollars' worth of furnishings and supplies.

"I never had a better bargain." Gost shook his head, when they had seen the river adventurers depart on the ferry. "I'm not going back to that danged hospital. I'll stay here. You got any baggage?"

"A suitcase is all."

"Get it. See if they'll let you have some of that dressing and dope at the hospital? We'll pull right down. I'm in a hurry to drop down."

Urleigh had no trouble obtaining medicine, and he paid twenty dollars to the hospital, just to cover expenses. He returned within three hours, and before three o'clock, under Gost's direction, Urleigh cast off