CHAPTER X
TO SAN FRANCISCO
For a moment there was excitement, and then the trained men of the sea got into action. Nearby there were several fishing boats, operated by gasoline motors. There were planks at hand, and rollers on which the craft could be launched in the surf, being eased along the slope by releasing a cable rigged to a post some distance away.
It did not take long for the fishermen to launch one of these motor boats, and while C. C. Piper was struggling in the surf, endeavoring as best he could to climb into his overturned boat, they put out to rescue him.
"Do you want that in the picture?" asked Joe, who was at one of the cameras.
"No indeed!" cried Mr. Ringold. "It won't fit in at all! He must drift ashore. We'll have to do all this over again."
"I can see Gloomy doing it," murmured Blake.
At that moment there came a hail from the comedian.
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