"Never!"
"What do you mean?"
"I am not going near those ruffianly and bloodthirsty pirates."
"Then you may stay here with the spooks, while Barney and I go."
This was altogether too much for the professor, and, when he found they really intended to go, he gave in.
Frank loaded the rifles and the shotgun, and took along his bow and arrows, even though Barney made sport of him for bothering with the last.
They slipped the canoe into the water, and, directed by Frank, the professor succeeded in getting in without upsetting the frail affair.
"Oi hope we won't run inther the ghost," uttered the Irish boy.
"The sound of that singing comes from the direction in which the old man seemed to point," said Frank.
This was true, as they all remembered.