CHAPTER IX

Night on Cabin Island It took the boys the greater part of the day installing themselves in the cabin on the island and “getting everything shipshape,” as Chet expressed it, by nightfall. After they had made the boats secure they were obliged to make numerous trips from the shore to the cabin, bringing up supplies, but by the time the early winter twilight fell they had managed to make the place very cosy and habitable. They were too busy to discuss the strange affair of Hanleigh. Mid-afternoon had brought a rising…