“Would you stop me, Fritz?”
“I would deter you from doing anything so rash.”
“Frank, Frank!” said Dolly entreatingly. “Do please listen to your brother! Frank! I beseech you!”
But Frank was set on his plan.
“Very well!” said the boatswain, who thought it his duty to interfere. “Since a search is to be made, let us make it without waiting until night. But why should we not all go together to Sugar-cane Grove?”
“Then come along!” said Frank.
“But,” the boatswain went on, addressing Fritz, “is it really Sugar-cane Grove that we ought to make for?”
“Where else?” Fritz asked.
“Rock Castle!” John Block answered.
The name, thus unexpectedly dropped into the discussion, altered the whole course of it.