"See! The light has gone out!"
They all looked up.
"So it has!" faltered Frank.
"The lighthouse is dark!" said Sammy slowly. "Fellows, it must be wreckers at work! They've overpowered the light-keeper, and put out the light to draw some ship in toward shore so she'll be wrecked! That's what it is—wreckers! Come on!"
CHAPTER VI JUST IN TIME
For a moment Bob and Frank were so startled at not seeing the light flashing out, as it always did after sunset, that they did not stop to think what Sammy's excited words meant. They raced on after him, toward the entrance to the lighthouse, intent only on finding out what was the matter.
"It sure is wreckers," Sammy kept saying over and over again. "Some bad men are trying to get the ship on the rocks, and when she breaks up they'll get all the valuable cargo that comes ashore!"
Then Frank paid some attention to what his chum was saying.