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The boys were nearing the point where the heavy walking began. Otherwise they would have broken into a run, so eager were they to tell about their adventures.
Coming out of the weeds and ooze, they stood looking blankly at the spot where the sea-plane had rested.
The sea-plane and their friends were gone!
CHAPTER VII.
ALONE ON A STRANGE COAST.
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When the boys made the startling discovery that the sea-plane had disappeared and that they were alone on the strange coast, they plumped down on the sand without a single idea in the world except that they were utterly tired out and weak from hunger.
They could not account in any way for the mysterious happening that had deprived them of their tried and true friends.
Not for a moment did they imagine that they had been deserted by intent. They knew full well that even in the face of great danger Captain Johnson and Josiah Freeman were not the kind of men who would fly away, without sign or signal, and leave a comrade in distress, let alone these boys for whom either of the men would have spilled his last drop of blood.