“But we have as good a right to stay and hunt for the radium as they have!” put in Dr. Belgrade sharply.
“Then you stay!” cried Noddy. “I’ve had enough! I’m going back home.”
“And desert me?” asked the renegade professor.
“I don’t care anything about you! I wish I’d never come on this trip. Oh, Jerry, I’ll never bother you again, as long as I live if you only set me on the main land. We can’t get to shore unless you help us, because the current is too swift.”
“What shall we do?” asked Jerry of his chums.
“Transport him,” suggested Ned. “We want the island to ourselves, if we hunt for the radium treasure. This is an easy way to get rid of Noddy.”
The others agreed to this, and accordingly the airship was let down in front of the hut. The professor began searching among the dead snakes for a two-tailed toad, but did not find any.
Noddy lost no time in scrambling aboard the Comet. Bill Berry followed, and Dr. Belgrade much against his will, did likewise. He scowled at the boys and the professor, but they took no notice of him. As Jerry had said, the less they had to do with the plotters the better it would be.
Noddy was hysterically thankful to the motor boys, but they well knew he might, at the first chance, play some mean trick on them.