Was the missing boy still on the island?
[CHAPTER XXI—LOOKING FOR JACK]
Again and again the Bobbseys and the others called the name of Jack, but the children’s voices sounding loud, clear and shrill above the others. But, as at first, only the echoes answered.
“That’s the way we always holler when we’re lost,” said Freddie.
“But I guess Jack doesn’t hear us,” added Flossie.
“No, I guess not,” said Cousin Jasper, in rather a sad voice.
“Are you sure this is the right island?” asked Mrs. Bobbsey, looking about the place where they had landed from the Swallow.
“Oh, yes, this is the island where I was shipwrecked,” said Mr. Dent, “though Jack and I did not land just here. It was on the other side, and when we go there I can show you the wreck of my motor boat—that is, if the storms have not washed it all away.”
“Well, then maybe Jack is on the other side of the island,” said Bert. “And he couldn’t hear us.”
“Yes, that might be so,” agreed Cousin Jasper. “We’ll go around there. But as it will take us some little time, and as we want to get some things ashore from the ship, we had better wait until later in the day, or, perhaps, until to-morrow, to look. Though I want to find Jack as soon as I can.”