"Seek him out, pup!" repeated Dick.
"Oh! very good," mutely answered the dog, and went
at it again, tooth and nail, harder than ever.
In the course of a quarter of an hour there was a
deep yawning hole in the sand, into which Dick peered
with intense anxiety. The bottom appeared slightly
damp
. Hope now reanimated Dick Varley, and by
various devices he succeeded in getting the dog to scrape
away a sort of tunnel from the hole, into which he