While he gazed about, in perplexity at the phenomenon, Frank suddenly descried something that almost startled him into an outcry.
In the sky far to the westward and, seemingly, high in the air, there hovered a bright light!
The next instant it vanished so suddenly as to leave some doubt in the boy's mind as to whether he had really seen it,—and, if he had, if it might not have been a star or some other heavenly body.
He turned to his companion.
"Rastus, did you see a light in the sky there a second ago?"
The boy pointed in the direction in which the mystery had appeared.
"A light—?" repeated the puzzled negro, still scared at the buzzing sound, which had now ceased. "You done say a light—a reg'lar LIGHT, light?"
"Yes, yes," impatiently; "did you see one?"
"No, sah, no, indeedy," was the indignant response; "ah don' see no lights."
"That's strange," said Frank, half to himself. "You are quite sure?"