“Then it isn’t likely that Si Peters and Wash Crosby escaped.”
“Well, we’ll take a good look around.”
The two continued to row about, but for a long while saw nothing but bits of wreckage.
Then our hero beheld a form floating just to their right.
“Take both oars, Harry,” he said, “and be careful, for that is Wash Crosby’s body.”
Harry took the oars and began to row slowly.
As he moved on, Jerry stood in the bow.
At that instant a strange thing happened. Si Peters came up under the boat, giving it such a shove that Jerry was hurled overboard.
Then, with a swiftness that was really surprising, Si Peters clambered into the row-boat.
In his hand he held part of a broken oar.