"Ahoy there! What's the rumpus?"
CHAPTER XIV
STRANGE COMPANIONS
Dave knew at once that his shouts at the large birds must have attracted the attention of the person who was now hailing him.
"Ahoy, yourself!" he cried, starting to his feet and peering expectantly through the mist in the direction from which the challenge had come.
In a few moments the outline of a yawl somewhat larger than the one Dave was in loomed up in the near distance. A man was seated in its bow, while two others rowed the boat.
They came alongside. All three looked haggard and worn out. In the bottom of their boat lay a broken demijohn. They reminded Dave of sailors he had often seen on shipboard getting over a debauch.
"Why," said the man in the bow, staring in amazement at Dave, "if it isn't young Fearless, the diver!"
"I remember you, Mr. Daley," responded Dave, recognizing the speaker as one of the crew of the Raven. Dave had a dim memory, too, of having seen Daley's two companions with Captain Nesik's crew.
Daley drew the two yawls close together with a boathook, and he and Dave were face to face.