"I saw him!" she declared.
"I guess she must have dozed off a little, and dreamed it," spoke Mr.
Bobbsey, with a smile. "That was it. The sun was so hot, that she just
slept a little as she was fishing. She might have had a bite, and that
awakened her so suddenly that she gave a jump and fell over the rail.
I must have it built higher. Then there won't be any danger."
"Yes, do," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "We've had scares enough."
"But I did see that boy--the one that gave Bert the fish," insisted
Flossie. "He was on our boat. I saw him as plain as anything."
"It must have been some one in the excursion boats that looked like
him," spoke Nan.
"No, I saw Will!" declared the little twin, and, rather than get her
excited by disputing, they allowed her to think she really had seen a
strange face, as she leaned over.
"But of course she either dreamed it, or saw some one she thought was
that runaway boy," Mr. Bobbsey said, afterward. "It's all nonsense to
think he was on our boat."
Snap, who had not been allowed to go to the rescue, much as he had
wanted to, leaped about Flossie, barking and wagging his tail in joy.
"Anybody would think he'd done it all," said Bert. "Say, Harry, you're
all right! That was a dandy dive!" and he clapped his cousin on the
back.
"Indeed we never can thank you enough.
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