Jerry. "It's too bad."

"Might be worse," said Ned as cheerfully as he could.

"Don't you want to go ashore, boys?" called Mr. Blowitz.

"I guess we'd better," murmured Bob. "The water is quite deep except
for the place where the Ripper went on the rocks."

"The motor boat will stay there all right until high tide," the man
went on. "Better anchor her well, however, it might come on to blow."

Jerry attended to this, throwing over a strong anchor which was
aboard. Then the three boys joined the others in the rowboat.

"Can you find your way to shore, through this fog?" asked Rose.

"Oh, yes, we're not far from the beach," replied Mr. Blowitz. "I've
been out to see an old fisherman, on business, and I was slowly coming
back through the fog, when I saw your boat. I didn't know you owned
that."

"We don't," replied Jerry shortly, for he did not want to get too
friendly with Mr. Blowitz, even if that man did show a desire to do
so. "We hired it."

"I thought I'd seen it in the bay before," went on the man. "It's a
fine boat. I suppose you could go out quite a way to sea in her."

"You could," said Bob. "It's big enough to weather quite a gale, and