“Please take me to your father, children,” he begged. “I’ll tell him who I am and how I happened to be wrecked. Oh, I am so glad there is a chance to get off this island! Come, children, take me to your father.”
He held out his hands. Bunny took one and Sue the other. Then the children went back to their father and mother.
Thus it was that Bunny Brown and his sister Sue caught the “wild man.”
CHAPTER XXIV
THE SHIP COMES BACK
The stranger spoke so kindly to them and seemed so sad and forlorn, that the hearts of Bunny and his sister Sue went out to the poor man.
And you can well imagine how surprised Mr. and Mrs. Brown were when, as they sat under the cocoanut trees talking about when the Beacon would come back, they saw their children coming down a little hill hand in hand with the strange wild man.
“Look!” cried Mrs. Brown.
Mr. Brown rubbed his eyes as though he could not believe what he saw. Then he cried:
“My gracious, it’s the wild man!”
Bunny and Sue walked nearer, still hand in hand with the long-haired and matted-bearded man, and when they were close enough to be heard Sue called out: