“And Mr. Curry will get away from Silver Beach with everything he’s stolen,” added Connie in despair. “That’s why he cut our boat loose! So we wouldn’t be able to tell anyone what we saw, until after he’s safely away!”
“Oh, we’ve got to do something—quick! Let’s yell for help again.”
Cupping hands to their lips, the girls shouted until they were nearly hoarse. Although the cruiser had not as yet drifted far from shore, no one was abroad to hear or see them.
“It’s no use,” moaned Vevi, grasping the Adventurer’s railing for support. “We’re going to be carried way out into the ocean. I’m getting seasick too! I feel just awful.”
Big tears splashed down the little girl’s cheeks. Running into the cabin, she flung herself on the cushioned seat and buried her head in a pillow.
CHAPTER 19
SNOW WHITE WINGS HOME
NOW Vevi was more frightened than ill. The Adventurer was bobbing up and down on the waves. But the motion was a gentle one, and the girls had not been aboard long enough to really become seasick.
It was the fear of being carried out to sea that worried Vevi and Connie more than anything else. They were troubled too, lest the drifting cruiser crash into one of the other boats which had been tied up to buoys in the bay.
Connie followed her little friend inside the Adventurer’s cabin.