"Can it be your Ed?" demanded Alice.
"I can't make out. They are pushing him down into the bottom of the boat. I think they mean to throw him overboard."
"If we had only turned up a few minutes sooner!"
"Yes; it is to be regretted that we didn't.... We can't do a thing as it is."
But the boy was not thrown over.
The last they saw of him he was still lying in the bottom of the boat.
Harry wondered if he was dead.
Pow Chow was by this time.
Old King Brady called to them and informed them of the fact.
Then the identifying of Ed's clothes followed.