CHAPTER XXV.
SEARCHING FOR FRANK.
As time passed and Frank did not return, the boys began to grow restless and anxious.
"I don't like it," declared Diamond, pacing the beach, upon which the tide was washing higher and higher as it came in. "I did not think much of letting him go away alone. We all know what happened to him once when he was alone on this island."
"He knows it himself," said Hodge; "and it is mighty hard work to catch him twice in the same trap."
"Oh, he's shrewd enough, but he can be overpowered by numbers. What do you think about it, Browning?"
Bruce was stretched on the sand, his head pillowed on his coat, which lay on a rock.
"I'm not going to think for an hour," he grunted. "Too much trouble."
"Oh, your laziness makes me disgusted!" snapped Diamond.