"She's all alone! I'm afraid! Nobody's in her!"
"Ob course dah isn't," said Kisedek. "Not eben de black-fish. Dey was pumpin' ob her all day yes'erday."
Ben's fright was over in an instant, for the older children were already taking possession of the wreck, and were exploring it in all directions.
It was great fun, only there was very little to be discovered by the "boarders."
"She isn't so bad a wreck," said Jim Ridgeway. "Look at her masts."
Barbie Kyle was looking down the hatchway, and she almost shuddered as she exclaimed,
"Jim, would you dare to go down stairs, and see what's in the cellar?"
"Cellar! Why, Barbie, that's the hold. Maybe there is something down there somewhere."
"Away down there? Do you s'pose the folks ever lived there and kept house?"
"Of course they did. They cooked, and they had beds there. That's where the cargo was, till she got wrecked, and they ran her on the bar. Then it was full of water."