“Sh!” Sally warned. “Don’t make a sound!”
Penny sat up in the bunk. Her friend, she saw, had started to dress.
“I think someone is trying to get aboard!” Sally whispered. “Listen!”
Penny could hear no unusual sound, only the wash of the waves.
“I distinctly heard a boat grate against the Queen only a moment ago,” Sally pulled on her slacks and thrust her feet into soft-soled slippers which would make no sound. “I’m going on deck to investigate!”
Penny was out of bed in a flash. “Wait!” she commanded. “I’m going with you!”
Dressing with nervous haste, she tiptoed to the cabin door with Sally. Stealing through the dark corridors to the companionway, they could hear no unusual sound. But midway up the steps, Sally’s keen ears heard movement.
“Someone is in the lounge!” she whispered. “It may be Pop but I don’t think so! Come on, and we’ll see.”
CHAPTER
13
THE STOLEN TROPHY
Hand in hand the two girls tiptoed to the entranceway of the lounge. Distinctly they could hear someone moving about in the darkness, and the sound came from the direction of a small cabin which the Barkers used as an office room.