“I have it!” cried Tom, excitedly, “The smoke!”
“What about it?” said Jo.
“Why, don’t you see,” responded Tom. “It was a signal.”
“Well, suppose it was, what has that got to do with them?”
“Everything,” replied Tom. “That was a sign that the Storm King was here.”
“But who did it?” persisted Jo.
“That villain of a steward,” asserted Tom. “You know that someone on board was signalling to the Marjorie, and just as soon as we got in here he made some pretense to get ashore.”
“Tom is right,” agreed Berwick.
“I knew it was him,” lamented Tom, “and to think we let him get away.”