CHAPTER IV

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BOAT


"Something is wrong sure!" exclaimed Snap, as the cry from the
farmhouse was repeated.

He looked below and saw that Pop Lundy was running away, in the
direction of the cry for assistance.

"Now is our chance to get away!" cried Whopper, and dropped to
the ground, while the others did the same.

"Wait!" came from Snap. "That sounds as if somebody was in great
trouble. Hadn't we better go and see what it means?"

"And get caught by Pop Lundy?" queried Giant.

"I don't care," put in Shep. "If I can help a lady I am going
to do it."

He hurried off in the direction Simon Lundy had taken and one
after another his chums followed. To get to the back door of
the farmhouse they had to pass around a chicken house and a pig
sty, and as they were doing this they saw a burly negro leap a