proposed a nap.

"You deserve it, certainly. You can use the big double room, there are
two beds in it, and turn in till suppertime. Fernald won't be back
before then, and there's nothing to keep you up," said Mr. Everett.

The tired boys soon tumbled into bed, and without any preamble, dropped
off to sleep. They had slept what seemed to them to be only a few
minutes, when they were awakened by Fernald.

"Tumble up now, it's six o'clock, and the young lady downstairs says
that supper will get cold if you wait any longer."

A liberal application of cold water soon aroused them, and in a little
while they were doing justice to the ample meal served up for them.

As they were eating, Fernald told them he had made arrangements for four
men to come from the Customs House and help in the capture of the band.

"That will give us five men, and with the element of surprise in our
favor, we will have little trouble in capturing them," he said.

"How do you figure five?" broke in Dick.

"Why, myself, and the four men who are coming," he answered.

"Well, where do we come in?" demanded Phil, seconded by Garry.

"Oh, I had forgotten about the possibility of you're wanting to be
there. I'm afraid that it is too dangerous," said Fernald gravely.

The protests of the three came almost in one voice, until Fernald,
unable to keep a straight face any longer, broke out into a shout of
laughter. The boys then saw that he had been indulging in a quiet bit of
fun at their expense, and they were not to be cheated out of their share
in the capture of the outfit.

After supper the boys pitched in and helped wash and wipe dishes,
although Miss Ruth protested. Used as they were to camping, washing
dishes was no new experience to them.

A pleasant evening was passed, and then the chums trooped off to bed,
Fernald sharing the big room with them.

"Just think, while we are sleeping, LeBlanc and his outlaws will be
coming across the border with their cargo of furs," said Dick, as they
prepared for bed. "And we don't get any excitement now till the night
after tomorrow. It will seem an age, the waiting."

They were up with the sun, and after breakfast Fernald left to loiter
around the town, and see what could be seen, or hear any gossip. Of
course by this time LeBlanc knew that Phil had been rescued, so Fernald
judged that the safest thing for the boys to do was to keep either in
the house or close to it, thus giving LeBlanc the idea t