XXI. What Appearing on Billy's Plates
XXII. Everything is Settled




CHAPTER I

GETTING A MOTOR BOAT


"If you are going with the boys on the river, Jack, you will have
to get a motor-boat. Won't you let me buy you one?"

"No, not a bit of it, Dick."

"But you want one?"

"Certainly, and I am going to have one."

"But motor-boats cost money, Jack. Why, mine cost me-----"

"Never mind what it cost, Dick. You spend a lot more money than
I can afford to spend, and you have a gilt-edged affair, of course.
I want a boat to use as well as to look at."

"But you want a serviceable boat, Jack?"

"I am going to have it, and it will not cost me anything like what
your boat cost. Just let me look around a bit, Dick."