"The trouble is you're anticipating too rapidly, Bud," Mr. Perry advised.
"Columbus would never have discovered America in that frame of mind."

"All right, I'll change the frame," said Bud. "We'll just go ahead and
see what we shall see."

"We've got to go ahead if Hal's cousin is in peril," declared Cub.

"Do you really believe the Crusoe boy is your cousin, Hal?" asked Bud.

"Of course that's hard to believe, but the evidence points in that
direction," Hal replied.

"At least if he is your cousin, we know now that he wasn't making monkeys
out of us, as that last message, supposed to come from him, made it
appear he was doing," Cub admitted.

"Yes," put in Mr. Perry; "it looks now as if he was telling a straight
story all along."

"If that's true, then he's probably in serious trouble right now," said
Hal.

"Probably a prisoner in the hands of robbers, if not worse," Bud
supplemented.

"Let's go to bed at once and get a good night's rest so that we will be
in condition to put forth our best efforts to find him and rescue him in
the morning," proposed Mr. Perry.