The captain often
turned his eyes down stream for some sign of the boat from the city.
Why were the police so long in coming? he asked himself. He had
expected them at the island in two hours at the most, and still they
were nowhere in sight. He was getting very impatient sitting there,
keeping the captives under such strict guard. He determined to have
something to say later about the slowness of the police. He would
write an article for the paper, that was what he would do. If that was
the way they always acted, was it any wonder that crimes were so
frequent?
Another hour passed, and when the captain's patience was strained to
the utmost, a large motor-boat suddenly rounded the lower end of the
island, and slowed up right in front of where the capture had taken
place. A number of men were on board, who looked curiously upon the
strange scene before them.
An officer, with several of his men, came ashore, when the two robbers
were at once hand-cuffed, and hustled on board the boat. Rod now
brought down their clothes, which were thoroughly searched, and
everything taken from the pockets.
"It took yez a mighty long time to come from the city," Captain Josh at
length blurted out.
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