late is very nourishing and they felt much better after the brief lunch, although very thirsty.
"I bought that on the train from Bay St. Louis to Mobile," explained the youngest Rover. "Sorry now I didn't get half a dozen."
"And a bottle of lemon soda with it," added Tom, who was bound to have a little fun no matter how serious the outlook.
Slowly the morning wore away. About eleven o'clock it looked as if the sun might come out, but soon it clouded over as before and then the mist began to crawl up.
"This is terrible," sighed Sam, at last. "Dick, what can we do?"
"I don't know, Sam. If we knew in what direction the land lay we might make some effort to reach it."
"We couldn't paddle the rafts fifty or a hundred miles."
"I am in hope that some steamer or sailing vessel will come this way and pick us up," answered Dick. Then a silence fell on the little crowd. Matters were growing serious indeed, and all wondered how the adventure would end.
