"From a ship?"
"Yes. From a steamer which passed here yesterday afternoon, in sight of our island?"
"And you said nothing to me about it!" exclaimed Tartlet, lifting his hands to the sky.
"What good should I have done?" asked Godfrey. "Besides, I thought that the vessel had disappeared! But that boat might belong to her! Let us go and see!"
Godfrey ran rapidly back to Will Tree, and, seizing his glass, returned to the edge of the trees.
He then examined with extreme attention the little vessel, which would ere then have perceived the flag on Flag Point as it fluttered in the breeze.
The glass fell from his hands.
"Savages! Yes! They are really savages!" he exclaimed.
Tartlet felt his knees knock together, and a tremor of fright ran through his body.