How long they had slept neither was aware when at last both awoke. The little cabin was dark except for a faint light streaming in through the open porthole. "Where are we, Jack?" called Fred in a low voice. "Why, don't you know?" replied John. "We're on board that boat that picked us up." "Oh, yes, I remember now. How are you?" "All right I guess, though I feel as if I had been breaking stones or lifting weights all my life." "I guess you wouldn't feel that way if you really had," responded Fred lightly. "A fellow's muscles would get used to the work if he had to do it all the time. Where do you suppose we are?" "I haven't any idea. We're moving, though, all the time, that's plain." "Yes, I can hear the swash of the water. I wonder if we are anywhere near Mackinac Island." "Let's go up and find out," suggested John and hastily the boys left their bunk and made their way to the deck. The stars were shining and it was manifest to the boys that the morning light had not yet appeared. Perceiving a man near the stern of the boat they at once approached him and made known their presence. "Where are we?" inquired Fred. "We'll be in Sault Ste. Marie in about a half an hour." "What!" exclaimed Fred. "That's right, lad," said the sailor. "When did we pass Mackinac Island?" "Mackinac Island! Why we left that a good many hours ago." "Why didn't you stop and put us off?" "We don't make any stop anywhere. I guess the captain told you that we couldn't stop there. That doesn't make any difference, however, we'll be in Sault Ste. Marie pretty soon and then you boys can stop all you want to." "How shall we get back to Mackinac?" inquired John. "I can't say," laughed the sailor, who appeared to regard the plight of the boys more or less as a joke. "My suggestion would be to wait there and when one of the line boats come through go back on that. There will be one out somewhere about noon." "Probably that's the best we can do," said Fred meekly. "You say we'll be there in about a half an hour?" "Yes." The boys at once returned to their cabin, but to their dismay they discovered that the clothes in which they had been rescued were still too wet to be donned. "There's no help for it," said John disconsolately. "If this old tub stops long enough at Sault Ste. Marie we can go ashore even in these togs we have on. Come on back on deck and we'll find out how long the stop is." Returning to the deck the boys learned that the boat on which they were sailing was to remain six hours at Sault Ste. Marie. "That's all right," said Fred as he and John withdrew to another part of the deck. "We'll go ashore just as we are and before the boat sails we'll have a chance to change our clothes." The boys were interested in spite of their predicament in the low lying shores past which they were steadily moving. It was sufficiently light to enable them to mark several parks, evidently playgrounds of the people of the little city which they were approaching.