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DICK SANDS, THE BOY CAPTAIN. CHAPTER XV. A STRANGER. AT daybrealc, next moming, Austîn, who happened to be on guard, heard Dingo bark, and noticed that he started tip and ran towards the river. Arousing the inmates of the grotto, hc announced to them that some one was comîng. " It isn't Negoro," said Tom ; " Dingo would bark louder than that if Negoro were to be seen." " Who, then, can it be ? " askcd Mrs. Weldon, with an inquiring glance towards Dick. " We must wait and see, madam," replied Dick quîetly. Bidding Bat, Austin, and Hercules follow his example, Dick Sands took up a cutlass and a rifle, into the breach of which he slipped a cartridge. Thus armed, the four young men made their way towards the river bank. Tom and Actœon were left with Mrs. Weldon at the entrance of the grotto. The sun was just risîng. Its rays, intercepted by the lofty range of mountains in the east, did net fall dîrectiy on thecliff; but the sea to its western horizon was sparkling in the sunbeams as the party marched along the shore. Dingo was motionless as a setter, but did not cease barking. It sQon proved not to be his old enemy who was disturbing him. A man, who was not Negoro, appeared round the angle of the cliff, and advancing cautîously along the bank of the stream, seemed by his gestures to be endeavouring to pacify the dog, with which an encounter would certainly hâve been by no means désirable. "That's not Negoro I" said Hercules.