"What are you going to do?" Hodge demanded.
"I'm going to swim to that sloop!"
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE MYSTERY OF THE FISHING-SLOOP.
"Stay with the raft," Merriwell again commanded.
"But I want to go with you! You will need help!"
"Perhaps I may have to return to the raft. I can't find it if you leave it."
"We can get on that vessel. And perhaps, if you go alone, you will be killed."
Merriwell was as anxious and almost as much excited, but he kept his head.