In fact, I think a storm is brewing," and he looked up
through the trees to the sky.
It was becoming overcast, and the direction of the wind had changed.
Ned's chums agreed with him it would be best to lose no time.
"Fenn and I will go over to Mr. Armstrong's house this afternoon," said
Bart. "We'll find out about the ladder and the donkey."
"There's another thing to be thought of," said Ned. "What are you going
to do with your father when you get him, Frank?"
"I did have an idea I would take him to the hotel in Lockport."
"I wouldn't do that," said Ned. "That will be the first place they will
look for him. Why not bring him here?"
"It would be too long a journey through the woods," objected Fenn.
"Especially if he isn't well, and it's raining."
"I have it!" cried Frank. "The canoe!"
"The canoe isn't built for land travel," remarked Bart.
"No, but it can go on the creek and river all the way to the sanitarium,"
said Frank. "I know, for I tried it." Then he told his chums of the night
journey he had made.
"I was right then," commented Ned, and he related how he suspected Frank
had made a journey in the craft.
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