Wrecked in sight of port! Was there ever such luck? Well, I declare, that’s mighty funny! What hit us? You see we’re away off from the shore, and for the life of me I can’t see any rock or other obstruction on the ice. It’s as smooth as velvet back where we tumbled. And that mast was strong enough to hold a big blow. Can you get on to the secret, Frank? The thing upset, all right, computer repairs caboolture but didn’t you notice that she seemed to rear up like a horse on its hind legs. Say, come back here a little to where it happened. We’ve been carried past, on account of our momentum. Then tell me about it. I’m just dying for information. It’s bad enough to be worrying about that Bill mystery without having another shoved on me. What turned us turtle, and snapped off my beautiful mast like a pipe stem, eh?
Look up and see! Why, what’s that? As sure as I live it looks like a cable stretched across the river in this narrow place. How did we ever come to miss it before when we came up? We didn’t have to. Do you mean-ginger! somebody must have put it there since we went up! Is that what you mean, Frank? Doesn’t it stand to reason? Perhaps you might even guess who’d be most likely to play such a nasty trick as this? Lef Seller and Bill Klemm! Of course it was them! They knew we’d be coming back this way, and meant to upset us, perhaps smash my boat. Where’d they ever get the cable, do you suppose? Wake up. Lanky, and think,” said Frank, energetically. “Don’t you see, we’re directly opposite the quarries where the brown stone is taken out in summer? The place is shut up now, but under a shed a lot of material is lying. I can remember seeing a strong wire cable there that was used for something.
He did it, all right; broke my mast off, seems like, or wrecked it anyway. I’d just like to hammer him for this. Why, what if the thing had smashed down on our heads, it might have cracked our cocos! Lef seldom considers what a serious result may follow, when he sets about carrying out a joke. Remember the time he cut the electric light wires when we were having that entertainment in the big school hall, leaving the audience in the dark? Came near having a panic then that might have been terrible. Well, what are we going to do about it, Lanky? Let’s take a look at the mast. If it can be put up temporarily perhaps we can wiggle home yet with decency. Give us a hand here, Frank; I’m going to try to see if it can be stuck in once more, strong enough to hold out. There she goes up!
Sure as you’re born; and we’re going to get home under our own steam, as we’d say if we had a boat that ran that way. Well, we’re some lucky, after all. The fellow who never has an accident deserves little credit; but those who meet with all sorts of trouble, and conquer, ought to get special mention. Hear! hear! Never were truer words spoken in jest. All aboard again then, passengers for Columbia! I’m getting ravenously hungry, and my folks will be sending to the police to look for me under the ice if I don’t show up soon. Ready, Frank? Then off we go! Better luck this time. Be ready for anything unexpected; for when that Lef Seller starts in to doing stunts he never knows when to stop. I’m going to watch overhead, and you keep close tabs on the ice. I should say so, what with that race, the deliberate attempt to bust my boat into flinders, the acceptance of the challenge, and our meeting with that upset on the way home.
Then there’s that plagued mystery hanging over Bill. Wish I could only say it right out, Bill, who? Well, stranger things have happened. Why, a fellow would think the fate of nations depended on your remembering just where you happened to meet that tramp before. It’s funny how you carry on. Lanky, old boy. Tell me when you suddenly see a great light, won’t you? Sure,” avowed Lanky immediately, “if it happens in the night I’ll ring you up on the ‘phone and jut whisper ‘Bill-but Bill who? Was sure I had it then, but it slipped a cog again on me. I suppose you’ll call up the committee after supper, and arrange a meeting to hand over the acceptance to our challenge? Well, what’s the matter, don’t you think we can do them up? I brought back the acceptance to our challenge. I saw you go off with Lanky on his new ice-boat; did it work all right? Which means that you met Lef Seller with his Flier.
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