"You can leave at once. You have alarmed the whole establishment
needlessly."

Some warm words followed, and the upshot of the matter was that the
fussy old boarder had to pack his things and seek another hotel that
very night.

"I am glad to get rid of him," said the hotel proprietor, after
Wilberforce Chaster had departed. "He was making trouble all the time."

"We fixed him, didn't we?" said the bell boy to Joe.

"I hope it teaches him a lesson to be more considerate in the future,"
answered our hero.

Several days passed and Joe had quite a few parties to take out on
the lake. The season was now drawing to a close, and our hero began to
wonder what he had best do when boating was over.

"I wonder if I couldn't strike something pretty good in Philadelphia?"
he asked himself. The idea of going to one of the big cities appealed to
him strongly.

One afternoon, on coming in from a trip across the lake, Joe found
Andrew Mallison in conversation with Mr. Maurice Vane, who had arrived
at the hotel scarcely an hour before. The city man was evidently both
excited and disappointed.

"Here is the boy now," said the hotel proprietor, and called Joe up.