to the boat incident. "Jimmy thought he heard a rowboat. The little rascal had keener ears than I had, for that devil must have put in just after we left."
"And Cat found the lighthouse key in the boat, too," announced Hardy, to Turner's further amazement.
The two continued their speculations for some minutes longer as to the means Blanco used to accomplish his purpose and his plans for escape.
"Now I've just got to have a little sleep," asserted Hardy. "You'd better go down and be sure that Luke's stirring. Give him orders to wake us all up when the food is ready, but right this minute I'd rather sleep than eat."
So, leaving Turner to attend to this commission, he hurried to his room, stretched himself on a cot by the one Jimmy was occupying and fell asleep in a moment.
