“Maybe I was, but—There it goes again!”
“That’s so!” exclaimed Tom. “Somebody is calling from the other side of this patch of trees.”
“It is Jerry Koswell,” said Dick.
“Who is he calling to?” asked Sam.
“I don’t know. Keep still and maybe we’ll find out.”
And then all listened with bated breath for what might follow.
CHAPTER XXVI
A TALK OF IMPORTANCE
“I say, you on the rocks! Come down here and let us talk to you!” shouted Jerry Koswell.
“Who are you. What do you want?” asked a voice that was strange to the Rovers.
“We want to know what you are doing on this island?” demanded another person, Alfred Darkingham.