"If you catch 'em will you bring 'em back for us to see?" asked Vi, as the two parties prepared to leave the island.
"No, I think we'll take them right to the lockup," answered her father. "But come now, gather up everything, and we'll start back. If we let the tramps get too far away it will be hard to catch them again."
Soon the six little Bunkers were once more in Captain Ben's boat, and on their way across the bay to the bungalow. Captain Blake and his sailor boys went at once in the direction of Oyster Cove, there to round up the tramps if possible.
"I'll come and join you as soon as I leave the six little Bunkers safe," Captain Ben called to his friend Captain Blake.
"Who'll take care of us after you and daddy go back to get the tramps?" Rose asked, as the boat neared the dock.
"There will be plenty of neighbors around," her mother answered.
Word soon spread through the little colony at Grand View that the tramps, who had stolen many things during the late summer, might soon be caught, and several men joined Captain Ben and Daddy Bunker in the motor boat that was to go to Oyster Cove.
"But there will be no danger from the tramps," remarked Mr. Wendell, the next door neighbor, whose rooster had tried to fight Laddie that time. "The tramps must know they are being chased, and they'll get as far away as they can."
"I hope they don't get so far away that daddy and Captain Ben can't catch 'em!" exclaimed Russ.
Russ, Rose and the others stood on the pier and waved their hands to Captain Ben and their father, who departed in the motor boat Spray, together with several volunteers who wanted to help catch the tramps. Then the six little Bunkers went up the hill to the bungalow. They were tired after their outing on the island, and for once they did not tease their mother to provide them with some amusement.