for locating east from west,
or north from south."

"Jack, darlint!" they heard Jimmy cry out just then.

"What is it?" asked the skipper of the _Tramp_.

"I do be thinkin' I saw a break in the beastly ould fog beyont us; yis,
an' by the powers, it's a braze that fans me cheek at this identical
minute!"

"He's right, fellows!" shouted George.

"Then that means good-bye to the nasty old fog, which will be a
riddance of bad rubbish!" called the overjoyed Nick, reaching out and
possessing himself of the cracker bag, so as to be ready to do his duty
by his system.

"The breeze is dead ahead, boys," said Jack. "And in that event the
fog will be swept to sea. Watch now, and you'll see something worth
while."

Jack evidently knew what he was talking about, for in less than five
minutes it seemed as though some wizard must have waved his magical
wand, for suddenly they shot out of the thick pea-soup atmosphere and
into the bright sunshine.

They were indeed in a big bay, with land on three sides. The sun, now
half way and more down the western sky, shone in an unclouded field,
and the water danced in the fresh shore breeze.

Then every fellow shouted and waved his hat, such was the relief that
passed over them at the successful termination of the long outside dash.

"Don't any one of you ever dare to run my bully engine down, after it
has stood by me so nobly," George was saying, as they started at a
faster clip up still further into Winyah Bay, into which the Peedee
River empties.

No one was disposed to cast the slightest reflection on the cranky
motor of the speed boat; for just then they were feeling at peace with
all the world, and quite ready to forgive their worst enemies.

That night they camped on the shore of a creek that emptied into the
bay, ready to take up their southern journey with the coming of the
morrow.

CHAPTER XXII.

SAVANNAH AT LAST.

After that came some more hard inside work. There were times when even
the sanguine Jack began to fear that they would never reach Charleston;
for even at high tide they found the connecting creeks in many
instances little more than shallow ponds, and before they could break
through, considerable pushing and dragging had to be done.

But where there is a will there usually appears to be a way; and by
slow degrees they drew nearer the city on the coast.

"With good luck, fellows, we ought to make it tomorrow," Jack
announced, one evening, af