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tained the loan of a spare paddle, how, from the high 

 rock above Allegash Falls on the Allegash River, they 

 again sighted the pursuers, how they slipped into the 

 mouth of the Musquacook stream, when the pace be- 

 came too hot, then carried their canoe across a sharp 

 bend into the Musquacook; and so the chase went 

 on, through Round Lake, up the Allegash quick 

 water, through Long Lake to their present stopping 

 place. 



Nicholas's plan was to wait a couple of days 

 where they were, then to go ahead and cross Cham- 

 berlain Lake and from the far shore of that lake make 

 a long carry right over to " Our Lake," a distance of 

 say twelve miles. Nicholas argued that by this plan 

 they would win out in the race because the others 

 would keep on until they finally reached Kineo, on 

 Moosehead Lake, and not finding the fugitives there, 

 they would wait and wait until the danger of the 

 streams freezing up would compel them to return 

 home, discomfited and beaten, and before another 

 summer arrived the bitterness of defeat would have 

 been allayed and a reconciliation might be effected. 

 This scheme was adopted, the long carry of twelve 

 miles with the canoe and its impedimenta was made 

 in a day, and once in the lodge at the head of " Our 

 Lake " they gave a sigh of relief and cast care to the 

 winds, for here was in very truth a haven of rest fit for 

 any prince or princess in the land. 



