"We'll be on hand," answered Snap, and then he and his chums moved further out into the lake with the boats and the canoe, and were soon lost to sight in the gloom of the night.
"Well, this is the worst yet," growled Ike Akley, when he and his cronies were left alone. "We thought we were going to have the best of it and now they have turned the tables on us."
"Have they?" came from Ham Spink. "That remains to be seen."
"How?" demanded several of the others.
"Do you think I am going to bed, or sit down and suck my thumbs? Not much! I am going to do something."
"What are you going to do?" asked Jack Voss.
"Go over to their camp, and after they have gone to bed take all the boats away—and take whatever else we can get hold of, too. Then I am going to find a new camp—some place where they can't locate us very easily."
"How are you going to get to their camp?" asked Carl, with interest.
"On the raft—same as they got over here."
"Hurrah, that's the plan!" cried another of the party. "They'll think we are over here, waiting for them to show up at ten o'clock to-morrow
