Will dashed precipitately forward.
“Oh! Alan! My brother, my brother! I have found you at last.”
CHAPTER XXX.
CAPTAIN ALAN BERTRAM.
It was Alan Bertram, his long-lost brother, bronzed and bearded and changed, but the same kindly eyes beamed down on the happy Will, and the same hearty voice welcomed him.
“Will!” ejaculated the amazed Alan.
“Yes, yes, it is I, and you are alive whom we thought dead.”
Captain Bertram acted like a man stunned by an unexpected blow. He sank to a bunk—Will never releasing his grasp on his hand—and could only stare blankly at Will for some moments.
“How did you come here? It seems like a dream.”
“It is no dream, but a reality,” cried Will. “I have been seeking you for a long time. We have followed you step by step from the wreck of the Albatross.”