"Gone."
"Gone! In the power of that madman?"
"Yes."
Bob gave a groan and leaped up. His breast hurt him not a little.
"Where is Captain Sumner?"
"The yacht has given chase. Look!"
Jack pointed up the coast. The yacht was disappearing around a distant point.
But in a hour the vessel returned. The captain's sad face told his story. He had been unable to catch the crazy fugitive and rescue his daughter and Mrs. Cromwell.
What was to be done? Night came on rapidly, and they were compelled to wait until morning.
At early dawn Bob and Jack commenced to climb a near-by hill of ice to look for the small boat.