"Didn't you try to steal our clothing when we were in swimming?"
said Whopper.

"It was a mean piece of business to try to burn down our cabin
and to run away with all we had," said Giant. "Perhaps you wanted
to starve us into going home."

"It was only a bit of fun," pleaded Ham Spink. "We---er---we
were going to return your outfit to-morrow."

"I don't believe it," said the doctor's son promptly.

"Ain't you going to give us back our boat and the canoe?" asked
Ike Akley.

"That depends," answered Snap. He whispered something to his
chums. "We'll let you know to-morrow. It's too late to do anything
more to-night."

"Then you are going to take the boat and the canoe away?" asked
Carl Dudder.

"For the present, yes. Meet us at this place to-morrow morning at
ten o'clock and we'll talk business to you."

"All right---we'll do it," answered Ham, after whispering to his
cronies. "But don't fail to come," he added.

"We'll be on hand," answered Snap, and then he and his chums moved
further out into the lake with the boats and the canoe, and were
soon lost to sight in the gloom of the night.

"Well, this is the worst yet," growled Ike Akley, when he and his
cronies were left alone. "We thought we were going to have the
best of it and now they have turned the tables on us."

"Have they?" came from Ham Spink. "That remains to be seen."

"How?" demanded several of the others.

"Do you think I am going to bed, or sit down and suck my thumbs?
Not much! I am going to do something."

"What are you going to do?" asked Jack Voss.

"Go over to their camp, and after they have gone to bed take all
the boats away---and take whatever else we can get hold of, too.
Then I am going to find a new camp---some place where they can't
locate us very easily."

"How are you going to get to their camp?" asked Carl, with interest.

"On the raft---same as they got over here."

"Hurrah, that's the plan!" cried another of the party. "They'll
think we are over here, waiting for them to show up at ten o'clock
to-morrow morning. Won't they be surprised when they get up and
find the things minus!"

"They may set a guard;" suggested Ike Akley.

"If they do we'll have to make him a prisoner and gag him."

"When shall we start?" asked one of the boys.

"Let us dry ourselves by the campfire first," said Ham. "And
we may as well get something to eat too, for there is no telling
how long we'll be gone."

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