CHAPTER XXVII
BEN'S HUNT FOR WALTER
"Captain Russell, here is news which will interest you!" cried Major Morris one day, as he rushed up to Ben, while the latter was cleaning his pistol and his sword.
"What is it, major?"
"Colonel Hare, after a chase of miles through the jungle, has succeeded in rescuing that party of sailors who were lost from the Yorktown last spring."
"That is certainly good news, major," was Ben's reply.
"But that is not all of it, captain. With the party were several other soldiers and sailors, and among them Si Doring, the young fellow who was lost with your brother Walter—"
Ben leaped forward anxiously. "Was Walter with them, too?"
"No, captain; his name isn't on the list. But this Si Doring may know something about him—"
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