Part 30 (2/2)
”Lock hi more to tell you,” Mr Buckley ordered
The order was speedily obeyed; then all gathered eagerly about the governan ”When those rascals raided this boat they robbed ot yours, too, didn't they, Mr Baker?”
The father of thefreshasped:
”Yes, it's gone”
”I thought so,” continued the officer ”Noe have an aret wind of the fact that we have the son of one of them a prisoner on this yacht, you can expect a fusillade of bullets popping through your portholes any tiet out of here as soon as possible”
”Where'll we go?” asked Mr Perry
”We'll decide that after we get away If you want to keep your prisoner, don't stay here”
”Dad's got his automatic yet,” Cub reminded with youthful confidence in a chashot,” chihed Hal
”Oh you can laugh all you want to, Tee-hee, but if it hadn't been for ht now,” Bud flung back with a suggestion of resentive Bud credit for all he's done,” Mr Perry agreed ”We owe a good deal to his ingenuity”
”We ought to take our prisoner over to Rockport and put hiround?” asked Mr Buckley ”What would you charge hi except spy around your camp here You couldn't put him in jail for that and keep him there any time Besides, his father claims to own these islands--?” asked Mr Baker
”I think we ought to move your entire camp outfit to this boat and then stand off from the shore for a while and keep our eyes on this place with spyglasses--have you got a pair?”
”Yes,” Mr Perry replied; ”two good strong pair”
”Then we'd better get busy at once before they suspect what has becoet busy at once,” said Mr Perry ”The boys, however, must stay here on the boat We don't want to run any risk of their falling into the hands of the eneet ed
The yachts youth for a fewmanner
”I don't know,” he replied slowly ”Still, I suppose we could protect one of you if anything happened Well, inas a radio hook-up I guess we'll take you for one trip Coood lookout, Cub and Bud, and set up a holler if anything goes wrong And, Bud, be careful not to mistake us for the ene of yours”
”We ought to have a signal, so we could be sure to recognize each other,”
Bud suggested