366 RACEALONG 



''Holy Moses !" 



''Say, Dunbar, jump out and hammer on the door 

 of that house and ask the way," and Harry pointed 

 to a house back from the road. "This is a hell of 

 a thing — 'don't know the road/ " 



Out jumped Dunbar and approached the house, in 

 which not a light was to be seen — but a dog barked. 

 Back to the wagon Dunbar raced and actually fell 

 in, saying he wasn't going to take any chances with 

 a strange dog. 



Harry simply couldn't speak, he only gulped and 

 was out of the vehicle and up to the door and bang- 

 ing away on it in a jiffy. 



"Well — what's — wanted ?" drawled out the 

 squeaky voice of an old man from a window in the 

 second story. 



"Which road goes to the steamboat dock?" asked 

 Harry. 



"Take the road on the left," came the answer, 

 "but there ain't no boat docking there now, youVe 

 got to get ferried across the river," and the window 

 closed with a slam. 



"Get to the devil out of here!" exclaimed Harry 

 as he landed back in his seat, and the livery rig was 

 again put into motion, and following the left hand 

 road. When the party got out of the fringe of woods 

 that lined the road, they saw the boat following the 

 channel that runs near to the west bank. 



Harry began to yell at the boat, telling the pas- 

 sengers that had surged to the rail that he wanted 

 it to stop as he had a horse aboard; but the boat. 



