“It is thought that Jim Huntington’s sloop must have split its seams open in a heavy squall, Li. Huntington apparently stuck by his boat and went down with it.”
“Isn’t it supposed to have gone down somewhere off Ka Lae, Dad?”
“That’s right. But there’s a lot of ocean off the southern tip of the Island of Hawaii.”
Biff was frowning with concentration. “Ka Lae,” he said. “Those are the two words Tokawto mumbled to us this morning.”
“And that’s where we’re going,” his father said.
“You think Dr. Weber is being held somewhere near there, while somebody tries to locate the sunken sloop?”
“I’m sure of it now, Biff.”
“Who do you think his abductors might be, Dad?”
Thomas Brewster looked at Hank Mahenili. “Any doubt in your mind, Hank?”
“Not one bit,” the Hawaiian answered, shaking his head. “Perez Soto.”