"Werner and Glutts!" repeated the young captain. "What brought them to this island?"
"Catch them! Catch them!" came in a scream from Martha. "They are making off with all our lunch!"
"Drop that stuff, Werner!" Jack heard Randy call out.
"Come on after them, everybody!" yelled Gif. "They sha'n't get away with those good things—not if I know it!"
There was a rush through the trees, and the calls and cries increased. The girls did not take part in the chase, feeling that the two former bullies of Colby Hall might do them harm.
"Oh, dear, Jack! do you really think that they made off with all that lunch?" sighed Ruth.
"Sounds like it," he answered. "I wonder where they are?" He ran around some high rocks which cut off a view of what was beyond, and then leaped over some low bushes. Not to be left alone in the woods, Ruth followed close at his heels.
The next instant Jack saw Bill Glutts running in one direction and Gabe Werner legging it in another. Bill Glutts carried the tablecloth with a good portion of the things to eat still in it, while Gabe Werner held the newspaper with the remaining things.
"Stop!" ordered Jack, and then, as he saw Gif and Randy chase Glutts, he made a wild dash after Gabe Werner.