He was disappointed, but was possessed of a theory.
"I believe Winn has found that raft," he said to Cap'n Cod, as they sat together in the small hotel to which they had repaired for a consultation and dinner.

"But he probably discovered it just as those fellows, alarmed at meeting me, were putting off for another run down the river.

Then he hurried back here, and not finding us, took the responsibility of starting after them in the _Whatnot_, hoping in that way to keep them in sight.

It was a crazy performance, though just such a one as that boy would undertake.

He is a splendid fellow, with the one conspicuous failing of believing that he knows what to do under any circumstances just a little better than any one else.