The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island

Will you do me a favor Bumpus? Sure I will Giraffe; what is it you want now? Then tell me who that is talking to our scoutmaster Dr. Philander Hobbs; because you know I've just come in after a scout ahead and first thing saw was a stranger among the patrol boys. Oh! You mean that thin chap who came along in his buggy a bit ago chasing after us all the way from that town where we had a bite of lunch? Why I understand he's the son of the telegraph operator there. You know we made arrangements with him to try and get a message to us if one came along. Whew! then I hope he ain't fetched a message that'll spoil all our fun just when we've got to the last leg of the journey with the boat only a few miles further on! That'd be the limit Bumpus. You don't know anything about it I reckon?