The two men shouting with united voices, pronounced the captain's name.
"Halloa!" was the response.
"We cannot get back the way we came. Bring us a rope from the schooner's wreck, and lower it to us."
Brand shuddered and turned pale.
Mary, who was near, besought him to hurry.
"No," he answered, in husky voice, "I do not care to go aboard that schooner!"
"Then I will go!" cried Mary, and away she went.
Bad as he was, Brand was yet man enough not to permit this girl to undertake such a difficult task.
He sprang after her, and soon boarding the schooner, advanced with lighted candle into the hold, casting fearful glances around him.
He saw nothing, however, to excite alarm, and so seizing a small coil, he emerged with it on deck.