“I declare you are right. Hark! There it goes again!”
“Yes, and this time from the other side.”
“That’s the captain of the Catamaran.”
“Yes, and the other wasn’t. We’d better hurry up and get out of here.”
“Not till I’ve seen the inside of that castle,” said Jack.
He was determined, so there was no stopping him, although Harry, if he could have had his way, would immediately have left the island and returned to the Catamaran.
Passing through the door they found themselves in a gloomy room, walled up with stone.
From this they passed into another room, and still another.
Then they found a staircase, and ascending, went through four rooms on the upper floor.
They were all rudely furnished in the Arabian style, and seemed to have been but recently vacated.