Part 23 (1/2)

Donald and Ji was too vast to be comprehended in a moment

”Let's have Archie,” said Ji,” said Donald

”We'll have Archie if he'll co if we can stow un away”

There was a long, long silence, during which the three boys began to drea way

”Billy,” Donald North asked, at last, ”what you goin' t' do with your part o' theon the coast; and from the deck of the sloop, where she lay in harbour, the boys looked away to a glowing sunset, above the inland hills and wilderness

”I don't know,” Billy replied ”What you goin' t' do with your share, Jioin' t' do with yours, Donald?”

”I isn't quite made up my mind,” said Donald, with an anxious frown

”I 'low I'll wait an' see what Archie does with his”

The three boys stoay in the little cabin of the _Rescue_ very early that night They were to set sail for Ruddy Cove at dawn of the next , now returned fro that adventure by his father's letter, was heart and soul for trading But he scorned the little _Rescue_ It was merely that she was too small, he was quick to add; she was trim and fast and stout, she possessed every virtue a little craft could have, but as for trading, on any scale that half-grown boys could tolerate, she was far too ser one? What Archie wanted--what he deter less would do They must have a thirty-ton fore-an'-after with Bill o' Burnt Bay to skipper her

The _Heavenly Home_? Not at all! At any rate, Josiah Cove was to take that old basket to the Labrador for the last cruise of the season

Ji at?” Archie derin

Jimmie couldn't quite tell; but the truth was that the fisheret used to the airy, confident, masterful way of a rich man's son and a city-bred boy

”Look you, Archie!” said Billy Topsail, ”where in tiet that schooner?”

”The _On Time_,” was the prompt reply ”We'll call her the _Spot Cash_”

Billy realized that the _On Tiht be called the _Spot Cash_ She had lain idle in the harbour since her skipper had gone off to the es than he could take froet the stock?” Jimmie Grimm inquired

”Don't knohether I can or not,” said Archie; ”but I' left for St John's by the next mail-boat He was not the lad to hesitate What his errand was the Ruddy Cove boys kneell enough; but concerning the prospect of success, they could only sur Archie wasn't the lad to be long about anything What he undertook to do he went right _at_!

”If he can only do it,” Billy Topsail said

Ji stared at Billy Topsail like a litter of eager and expectant little puppies And Bill o' Burnt Bay stood like a wise old dog behind If only Archie could!

[5] As related in ”The Adventures of Billy Topsail”

CHAPTER XXIII