“Capital!” cried Parker. “We can decide what else to do with him when we return!”
“Exactly.”
This move decided upon, no time was lost in executing it.
Frank was quickly bound hand and foot. Then he was left lying upon his back in the main cabin, with the floating corpses all about him.
His captors disappeared up the stairway and he was left alone.
He heard them batten down the hatch and cover it over with sand. Then he groaned:
“Oh, my soul! I am truly lost. The end of this can only be death.”
The sharp cry uttered by Hartley at the close of a preceding chapter while he and Pomp were sailing blindly about in the deep sea with the Dolphin was well warranted.
Afar in the distance the captain saw a faint star of light.