"Well, you'd better skip," Harold advised. "You'll get in trouble
around here."

"There'd been more trouble if we hadn't been here," said Bob quietly.

"What do you mean?"

Bob related the story of the bomb to his brother.

"Say!" exclaimed Harold in an awestruck voice. "That was pretty good work
of you two. A train came along on that track too."

"Hugh got the bomb out just in time," said Bob.

"Say," repeated Harold. "Say," he said again, completely overcome.

"Do you think they'll let us enlist on the strength of what we did?" Hugh
asked hopefully.

"I doubt it," said Harold. "I'll certainly speak to the captain about
you though."

"We might as well go home now, I guess," said Bob. "You don't want to see
your canoe tonight, do you?"

"No," replied Hugh grimly. "I've lost all interest in canoes for
the present."

They said good night to Harold and started homeward. They still felt