They watched the boat until it was nearly out of sight.
“Look!” Derek shouted excitedly.
Brom Zook and Biff looked in the direction Derek was pointing. They saw the ugly, menacing clouds, forerunners of a chabasco.
“It’ll strike in a few moments,” Brom Zook said.
“And right at the spot we last saw Dietz,” Biff shouted. The winds were already getting heavier in the harbor.
“We can do nothing to help them. We’re too far away.” Derek’s father said soberly.
The chabasco struck. Dietz’s boat was right in the center of its fury. There was little chance that he and Specks would escape the storm’s vengeance.
A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure
MYSTERY OF
THE CARIBBEAN PEARLS
By ANDY ADAMS