“The wrong one!” gasped Flynn, dropping the stone. “I’ve finished him, too!”
Then he wheeled suddenly and took to his heels.
CHAPTER VI
A NIGHT OF ANXIETY.
Wallace and Woodock both heard Flynn say, “I have finished him!” and they saw Bart stretched on the ground. When the ruffian took to his heels they did not waste much time in following his example, and the trio soon disappeared from view.
Finding himself alone with Hodge, Frank quickly knelt at the side of his fallen friend.
“Bart!” he anxiously exclaimed; “are you hurt much? Speak—answer me!”
But Hodge did not speak, and his face looked pale and ghastly in the white moonlight that streamed across the water.
A sudden fear seized Merriwell, for he, also, had heard the words of the ruffian, Flynn. Was Hodge dead?
Frank looked for a wound, but could find none. He would not have been surprised had he found the stones of the beach red with the blood of his friend.