"I too," Jack said.
"I left mine on board," the captain confessed a bit chagrined.
"Me too," Pat acknowledged.
"Well, I've got mine so I reckon we're well enough armed," Mr. Lakewood told them. "But, before we enter the grove let's try turning back as though we were going off to the other end."
They fell in with his plan and, no sooner had they turned their backs and started walking away from the grove, than the cry came again and this time it was so loud and weird that, as Jack afterward confessed, it made his skin crawl.
"That's a man," Captain Ole declared as they came to a stop.
"But what would a man be doing on this island?" Mr. Lakewood asked skeptically.
"I don't know, but if that wasn't a man I'm a Dutchman."
"Then it's meself as believes yer Dutch," Pat grinned.
"But I ain't," the captain retorted somewhat hotly, "and to prove that I ain't I'm going to get that fellow and show him to you."