CHAPTER XIV
A TIMELY RESCUE
Jim Hart sat down in the boat, drew his legs up under his blanket, shivered as he took a long look down the channel at the cold gray lake, and said:
"Boys, you know how I wanted to see one of the great lakes; well, I hev saw, an' hevin' saw I think the look will last me a long time. I think Injuns wuz right when they put pow'ful spirits on these lakes, ready to make an end of anybody that come foolin' with thar region. The land fur me hereafter. Why, I wuz so skeered an' I had to work so hard I didn't hev time to git seasick."
"But we have to go on the lake again, Jim," said Henry. "This is an island."
Jim sighed.
Henry looked at the dense forest that enclosed the cove, and he thought once of exploring the islet even if it were in the night, but the woods
