CHAPTER XXIV
OFF FOR STONE ISLAND
Dick's chums, when they returned to the yacht, after waiting in vain for him at the plaza, where the band played, and where he had promised to meet them, were surprised to see him in earnest conversation with a Spanish gentleman on the deck of the Albatross.
"Well, we've been looking everywhere for you, Dick," said Paul Drew. "We were beginning to be afraid you had been kidnapped."
"The saints forbid!" cried the Cuban, fervently and earnestly.
"Come here and meet a friend of mine," invited Dick, and, when the lads crowded up, he presented them to Senor Alantrez—that is, all save Beeby, who, having accompanied Dick to the police station, was already acquainted with the father of the kidnapped lad.
"We are going to sea once more, fellows," announced the young millionaire. "We're going to chase after those kidnappers."
"But what about the search you came here to
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