‘Well, gee, you’re my friends, ain’t you? Sure she’ll like it. And――and I’d like it a sight better than going alone,’ added Pud. ‘I wouldn’t wonder if she gave us cocoanut cake, Tim. She makes corking cocoanut cake! Gee, you just ought to taste it!’ ‘We-ell, if you think it’ll be all right――’ ‘Of course it will! Gee, Aunt Sabrina’s a――a little stern, and she sort of scares you if you don’t know her, but she don’t believe in turning folks away hungry; especially if they’re relatives――or relatives’ friends. We’ll find a good place to leave the launch and get a street car that’ll take us out Moorehouse Avenue. It’s only four or five blocks from the car line. Say, how about shoving in over there?’ Pud indicated an unoccupied berth between two short piers across the river. A warehouse loomed beyond it, its windows shuttered. Tim looked and approved and Pud turned the launch’s nose across the stream. When they reached the place, it didn’t look so inviting, for it was half out of water, exposing an evil-smelling slope of black mud. But it seemed a safe spot in which to leave the launch and their belongings, since, as Tim pointed out, the only way to reach it was to climb over a fence that gave onto a narrow alley. So they made the boat fast, stowed everything into the lockers that would go there, covered the engine with a piece of tarpaulin, and shinned up a spile to the rickety wharf above. After that they climbed the fence, followed the alley to its junction with a cobbled street, and set forth in search of Aunt Sabrina. CHAPTER VI AUNT SABRINA DOESN’T ANSWER It was nearly seven o’clock when they at last reached their destination. This was because, although they twice asked directions, they never did find Moorehouse Avenue. Since, in the course of their search, they kept on in a general northerly direction, they eventually came to Aunt Sabrina’s street, and there Pud turned them back toward the river and so led them to the house. During the journey the sight of a letter-box reminded Pud that his missive to his parents still reposed in his jacket pocket, and he posted it.