“Look out!” cried Ned involuntarily, as if the man could hear him. “You’ll go over the cliff!”
With a quick motion he turned the boat, steering toward the foot of the rock, above which the men stood.
At that instant a black cloud came over the moon and the scene was plunged in darkness. It was just as if it had been blotted out, and a murmur of surprise, at the suddenness of it, came from those in the Ripper.
At the same instant a cry rang out—a man’s cry—and it seemed to be one for help.
CHAPTER XX.
BLOWITZ IS ANGRY
“Quick!” called Jerry. “Put us over there, Ned!”
“I will! Something has happened. I wonder—”
“Oh, why doesn’t the moon come out from behind that cloud,” exclaimed Rose, for she and the other girls were nervously afraid.
“Maybe they have both toppled over the cliff,” suggested Nellie.
“More likely only one of them did,” said Bob. “I only heard one cry. What’s the matter, Ned?”