But enough. Let us draw a curtain over the sufferings of the unhappy four.
XVI.
New Hopes and Plans.—A Sail!—A bitter Disappointment.—A hazardous Adventure, and a Fright.—Quilts for Togas.—Another tremendous Casualty.
THERE, on the top of the bank, sat the five boys of the “B. O. W. C.,” waiting patiently. “Only an hour more, boys,” repeated Bruce. “Well, if they don’t come, we’ll survive it,” said Bart.
“I suppose we shall start off at once, if they don’t come.”
“Yes, as soon as the tide begins to fall.”
“I wonder if it will carry the schooner with it.”
“I think that it will.”
“Perhaps it will leave it aground.”