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"Own up, Will, you've got hold of some great news, and you're just keeping it back to tease us! How about that, Bluff?"
"You're right, Frank, for I can see it in his face. His eyes are just dancing with a big secret. But wait up; here comes Jerry across the campus. Now he'll just have to open the box, and show us."
The college boy, called Will by his comrades, and whose last name was Milton, laughed good-naturedly, and then nodded his head.
"Why, fellows," he said, "I saw Jerry coming, and meant to wait for him. When all four members of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club, who call themselves the Outdoor Chums, are present, I've got something to say that is going to set you all just wild."
At that the young chap who went by the name of Bluff made frantic gestures for a fourth lad, just then heading in their direction, to hurry along.
Evidently this freshman must have suspected that something unusual was brewing, for he started on a run, and came up almost panting for breath.
"What's in the wind, fellows?" he demanded, glancing from one eager face to the others. "Don't tell me you've made up your minds where the club is going to put in the vacation just ahead of us, because that would be too good news. Who's going to take pity on me, and relieve my suspense?"
"Why, Will here has got something to tell us, and wanted to wait till you joined the crowd," said Frank Langdon, who was just a little taller, and more manly-looking than any other in the group; though they were all bright, able lads, who had seen considerable of life.
"Listen, boys," said Will, who was inclined to be less given to healthy color than the rest, and who seemed to be not quite so sturdy in build; "I've had a letter from my Uncle Felix, down in New Orleans; and he made the queerest offer you ever heard about. You see, through my mother he must have learned about some of the adventures that came our way the last two years; and, what do you think? he wants the Outdoor Chums to take a voyage all the way down the Mississippi, just as soon as school closes."
"What!" ejaculated Jerry Wallington, as though rather staggered by the sudden outlook; "a voyage down the Mississippi? What on; a floating log?--because we don't happen to own any kind of a boat just now."
"Well, Uncle Felix does, you see," Will went on, coolly. "It's some sort of a houseboat, that he used to live aboard for several years. For some reason, that he doesn't take the trouble to explain, he wants it brought down to New Orleans, where he's recovering from a bad accident, so that he just can't come up himself. And, boys, he enclosed a check for a hundred dollars in the letter."
"Wow! what was that for?" demanded Bluff Masters, who had a little habit of being impetuous, though at heart he was as true as steel to his chums, and always fair toward even his bitterest enemy.
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