Then, seizing a heavy piece of wood broken from the hunk, he struck desperately at the window.
The glass bull’s-eye was shattered into a myriad of fragments.
And, pressing his pale and excited face to the opening, Will Bertram cried wildly in the direction of the passing ship:
“Help! Help! Help!”
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE RESCUED CASTAWAYS.
While Will Bertram was passing through strange and varied adventures the friends he had left behind him at the whaling station were mourning him as lost.
Captain Bertram missed him when he returned to the settlement, and search was at once instituted.
He learned that Will had not returned by land. He must, therefore, have attempted to cross on the ice.
The field had broken up and floated to sea, and it was believed that Will had been carried away in this manner.