l."

"Then you might sell what you couldn't use."

"Where?" asked White. "Not in Newfoundland, for they would be seized
as contraband in any part of the island. Besides, you seem to forget
that as both of us are liable to arrest, we are hardly in a position to
go into the grocery business just at present."

"That's so. Well, then, why not carry them somewhere else in the 'Sea
Bee'? To Canada, or--I have it! You said something once about making
a trading trip to Labrador, and now is the very opportunity. Why
shouldn't we take the goods to Labrador? I don't believe we'd be
arrested in that country, even for smuggling, and they must need a lot
of provisions up there. It's the very thing, and the sooner we can
arrange to be off the better."

"But you don't want to go to Labrador," protested White.

"Don't I? There's where you make a big mistake; for I do want to go to
Labrador more than to any other place I know of. Also I would rather
go there with you in the 'Sea Bee' than in any other company, or by any
other conveyance. So there you are, and if you don't invite me to
start for Labrador before that brass-bound navy chap has a chance to
arrest me, I shall consider myself a victim of misplaced confidence."

"I do believe you have hit upon the very best way out of our troubles,"
said White, thoughtfully. "If I could arrange to leave mother, and if
the Yankee captain would make a part payment in cash, so that she and
Cola could get along until my return, I believe I would go."

"You can leave your mother and sister now as well as when you went to
St. Johns, and better, for I am sure David Gidge would look out for
them during the month or so that we'll be away."

"But David would have to go along to help work the schooner."

"I don't see why. You and I could manage without him, and so save his
wages, or his share of the voyage, which would amount to the same
thing. If one man can sail a 30-foot boat around the world alone, as
Captain Slocum did, two of us certainly ought to be able to take a
50-foot schooner up to Labrador and back. Any way I'm game to try it,
if you are, and I'd a heap rather risk it than stay here to be
arrested. There is Captain Bland now. Let's go and talk with him."

The Yankee skipper stood near the shattered door of the factory in
company with a number of villagers, all of whom seemed greatly
interested in something going on inside. As our lads drew near these
made way for