[CHAPTER XVI.]
MATT TAKES TOWNSEND'S ADVICE.
Townsend was on the road to rapid recovery. He was feeling a hundred per cent. better than he had been when Matt and his pards left him, two days previously, and if it had been possible to use his lame foot he would have been up and around.
He was not surprised to see Motor Matt and his friends, because he had expected Matt to make the trip to Turtle Key and back in safety; but he was surprised to see Cassidy enter his room with the young motorist.
"What's this?" cried Townsend, hoisting up on his elbow and staring at Cassidy. "Is that you, Cassidy?"
"Big as life, cap'n," grinned Cassidy.
"Where'd you come from?"
"From the Grampus."
"And where's the Grampus?"