“But he is going away!” cried Sue Brown.
“Can’t you see the ship leaving us?” asked Bunny, and he pointed to it.
“Yes, it is going away, but only off the sand-bar,” said Mr. Brown. “The captain wants to get into deep water before the tide begins to fall.”
“That’s all it is,” said Will Gand. “You can depend on that. Captain Ward wouldn’t leave us cast away on a desert island—though this isn’t exactly a desert island,” the man said, with a laugh. “We have things to eat, and there’s plenty of cocoanuts.”
“And it’s so warm that we could sleep out of doors all night,” added Sam Trend. “That is, all except the children, maybe,” he concluded.
“Oh, are we going to stay here all night?” cried Bunny. “I’d like to do that!”
“If we are, I’m going to make a bed for Elizabeth,” said Sue.
“I think there will be no need of that,” said Mrs. Brown. “I did fear at first that the ship was going away from us. But if you think she will stop and come back for us, it will be all right,” she said to her husband.
“Oh, the ship will stop as soon as she gets into deep water,” said Mr. Brown. “As for coming back, I hardly think it would be safe for her to do that. She will probably come to anchor well beyond the bar and wait for us to row out to her.”
“Then we had better begin rowing out at once,” Mrs. Brown said. “It’s getting late, and we don’t want to stay here all night.”