It was Captain Brand.
[CHAPTER VI.]
THE VISION.
"You here!" exclaimed Harry, starting back.
"And why not?" inquired Brand, with a sinister smile, "haven't I as good a right to be saved as yourself?"
"Certainly, and I am glad you have saved yourself. Still your appearance surprised me a little, as I had thought that no persons except ourselves, had succeeded in reaching this island from the wreck."
"It was a narrow escape for me," answered Brand; "the current which runs round the extremity of this island, caught me, and I would have been whirled past the land, do you see, but for my catching the spur of a rock by which I just succeeded in drawing myself ashore."
"Bad eggs always float," said Turk, making a grimace.
"What mean you, you rascal?" cried Brand; "are you regrettin' my escape?"