"I can't help thinking about it!"
"Nor I. But I'm hoping we were the only ones that went overboard. We must try to believe that, Bart, until we cannot believe it any longer."
Hodge was silent.
"And as for ourselves!"
"Oh, I wasn't thinking of ourselves," said Bart. "We can hang on here a good while, I think. I suppose we're being carried out to sea, though!"
"Not much doubt of that, I guess. But we've pulled through worse scrapes together, Bart!"
"That's right, Merry! And we'll pull through this. Are you up high enough on the boards? Let me help you! You can't be feeling very strong after that blow."
Merriwell drew himself higher out of the water, and found that the heavy board supported his weight.
"If only the fog would clear now! I hear a whistle away off there."
"Do you suppose the Merry Seas was sunk?" Hodge asked.