Have gone after him.

Keep camp in regular way while we are gone.

Hiram Nelson is leader, and Paul Perkins corporal, in our absence.
"ROB BLAKE, Leader, "Eagle Patrol, B.S.of A." With a piece of chalk the boy marked a rough square and an arrow on a tree--the arrow pointing to a spot in the sand in which he buried the letter.
"Now, then, come on," he shouted, dashing toward the boat, "shove off, boys, and if Joe's in the Upper Inlet we'll find him." "Hurray," cheered the others, much heartened by the prospect of any trace of the missing boy, however slight.
"Give way, boys," bellowed the captain, who had insisted on coming along armed with a huge horse pistol of ancient pattern which he had strapped on himself in the morning when the news of Joe Digby's disappearance reached him.

"This reminds me uv the time when I was A.
B.on the Bonnie Bess and we smoked out a fine mess of pirates in the Caribees." "Regular pirates ?" inquired Andy as Rob and Merritt bent to the oars.
"Reg'lar piratical pirates, my boy," responded the old salt, "we decorated the trees with 'em and they looked a lot handsomer there than they did a-sailin' the blue main." Further reminiscences of the captain's were cut short by their arrival at the Flying Fish's side.

They had hastily thrown two cases of gasoline into the dinghy before they shoved off so that all that remained to be done was to fill the fast craft's tank and she was ready to be off.
"Hold on," warned Rob, as Tubby Hopkins was about to secure the dinghy to the mooring buoy, "we'll tow her along.