"Him!" gasped Greer.

Leonard nodded. "He wanted the alcohol in it."

"And you call him a gentleman?"

Leonard nodded again. "Somehow I still call him a gentleman. He's hurt, sick, bruised, but he's a gentleman."

"Well I don't!"

At that moment, the buoy under Caradoc's head bumped into a wooden wall and upset their swimming arrangements.

They were under the overhang of the mysterious schooner.

[!-- CH8 --]

CHAPTER VIII

THE MYSTERY SHIP