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Rh "But how did you come to change your plans?" asked Tom.

"When you came out in that rowboat and the crazy man—excuse me, I mean your father—cut up so, they hustled him back to one of the staterooms," went on Captain Rodney. "Then they had a long talk. I think they were afraid you would go down the river by train and try to head them off"

"Which we did," murmured Sam.

"After a while Pelter and Japson came to me and said they must come up the river—that a sister of the crazy man lived up here, and they must visit her before they went down the coast I was suspicious, but what could I do? I had chartered my vessel and I had my money, so I obeyed orders. Then we came up here as fast as we could. The steam tug was dismissed, and we came ashore to this place. Then they hired an auto and went off—and that's all I knowabout it."

"You don't know where they went?" cried Dick.

"No more than what they said—that they were going to the crazy man's sister."

"Which was false," muttered Tom.

"What were you to do?" asked Dick.

"They told me I might sail up the river to