"That's all right," 0ld Dan Tucker had remarked; "just so long as we getashore in time to build our cooking fire, it suits me."

Everything seemed to be moving along with clock-like regularity, theboat breasting the current and throwing the spray in fine style, whenJud gave a cry.

"Something's happened to the _Speedwell_!" he announced.

0f course every eye was instantly turned back, and they were just in timeto see something that announced the truth of Jud's assertion.

Andy Flinn stood up in the bow of the second boat, which no longerchugged away as before, and he threw something out that splashed inthe water.

"It's their anchor!" cried Jud. "Either somebody's overboard, or elsetheir motor's broken down!"

"It's the motor, I guess," Paul observed. "Get out our anchor, andfollow suit."