Publisher's Synopsis
"Ho, ho, ho-hum!" grumbled Hank Butts, vainly trying to stifle a prodigious yawn. "This may be what Mr. Seaton calls a vacation on full pay, but I'd rather work." "It is fearfully dull, loafing around, in this fashion, on a lonely island, yet in plain sight of the sea that we long to rove over," nodded Captain Tom Halstead of the motor yacht "Restless." "Yet Hank just put us in mind of the fact that we're getting paid for our time," laughed Joe Dawson, the least restless of the trio of young Motor Boat Club boys. "Oh it's all right on the pay end," agreed Hank, readily. "But just think of a young fellow, full of life and hope, with a dozen ambitions and a hustling nature, taking up with a job of this kind!" "What kind of job?" inquired Captain Tom. "The job of being bored," answered Butts, solemnly. "I could have had that kind of job back on Long Island." "Without the pay," amended Joe Dawson, with another quiet smile. "But ten days of being bored does grow rather wearisome, even with the pay for a solace," agreed Tom Halstead.
