“Then they’ve skipped!” declared the life saver. “They got suspicious and left, taking the lantern with ’em!”
CHAPTER XIX
ON THE TRAIL
There was no doubt about it, the wreckers were not there, and the indications were that they had betaken themselves to some other location.
When the men flashed the pocket electric lamps they had brought with them, the little opening at the top of the cliff was well illuminated.
“Nothing doing!” exclaimed Joe, regretfully.
“They must have skipped out right after they chased us,” decided Blake.
“And they went in a hurry, too,” declared Tom Cardiff.