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“By swarming up one of the largest trees we can have quite a range of vision, and something ought to be heaving in sight before night. I’ll stand the first trick.”

“With nothing else to—— Hark!”

As the captain spoke a creaking sound was heard, and he finished the sentence by saying, joyfully:

“It seems that we sha’n’t have long to wait. There is some kind of a craft becalmed within a quarter of a mile of the shore.”

“There can be no question about that. Shall we hail her?”

“It isn’t necessary. She can’t get away until the breeze springs up, and we may as well know who we are asking for assistance. I am not putting as much faith in my fellow-man as I was before our experience of yesterday.”

The two walked down the bank of the cove to the beach, where a full view of the seaboard could be had, and there waited for the rising sun to show them the newcomer.

The shaft of radiance soon came out of the sea, gilding each crestless wave with a glory of brightness, and revealing to the watchers the spars of a jaunty-looking schooner so near the land that it seemed as if one could have tossed a pebble on her deck.