A few minutes later, some one entered Mrs. Harkaway's apartment, and then arose the fearful cry—
"Help! murder!"
CHAPTER XXIII.
YOUNG JACK IN TROUBLE—THE COUNCIL—DOOM OF THE BOYS—A
SOLDIER'S GRAVE AT DAYBREAK.
Young Jack and Harry Girdwood, who by their friends are supposed to have been grievously ill-treated, found themselves dragged by rough and brutal hands to a considerable distance from the shore where they had unfortunately landed.
The boy whom young Jack had rescued, and who decoyed them to their ruin, disappeared at once.
"Jack," said Harry Girdwood, when recovered from the first shock, "we are done for."
"No mistake about that," returned young Jack, gloomily.
"Well, well, it is no fault of ours; that is some consolation."