He ought to keep still in
a boat."
Merritt speedily came up, swam to the boat and tried to clamber
aboard, Herring shouting at him and warning him off.
"Get out, you'll upset me!" he shouted. "Why didn't you keep still?
You're as clumsy as a cow in a boat, you are. Get out of here, or
I'll hit you! Keep away, I tell you!"
"There is a rowboat coming," said Percival, turning his head. "He
will be all right, but he'll have to go back to the Academy in wet
clothes. No danger of catching cold now, but he'll be a sight all
the same, and serves him just right."
Herring kept on, but made for the railroad wharf, while the rowboat
that Dick had seen took in Merritt, and shortly landed him at one of
the docks along the river.
By this time the boys had reached the dock of the machine shops and
Jack tied up, covered his engine and walked up to the street with
Percival, the latter saying:
"It will be like those fellows to say that we were the cause of
Merritt's going overboard. They did not pass us at any rate."
"Let them talk," laughed Jack. "Talk costs nothing, and won't hurt
us."
The boys went to the office of the News where Jack gave the editor a
few little items, writing them out on the typewriter, Percival
looking on in great admiration, although he had seen Jack write before.
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