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CHAPTER VIII
THE MOTOR BOAT
"There she comes!"
"And see! It's all she can do to stem the current!"
Joe and Blake were watching the approach of a small steam tug, that was coming up the stream. Powerful as she looked, it was all she could do to make headway, so forceful was the swollen river.
"We can't all get aboard her," declared Mr. Piper, who, with the boys, Mr. Ringold, and some others, was standing in the rain, near the abutments of the vanished bridge. "If we try to she'll sink."
"Say, please don't talk that way!" begged the manager. "We are going to have troubles enough, without that."
"Oh, all right. But I just want to be careful," spoke C. C.
"The boat will make several trips—there will
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