The Mystery of Wreckers Rock by William Arden

Author:William Arden [Arden, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Ghost Ship

“Gosh, that wasn’t far,” Pete noted.

“Far enough,” Jupiter said grimly, “for him to run and come out here where we couldn’t see him around the curve in the rock. That is how he vanished.”

“But where to?” Pete wondered, looking around.

They stood on a strip of rocky, gorse-covered moorland between the south side of the towering rock and low cliffs that dropped steeply down to the surf of the open sea. The treeless ground was cut by small ravines.

“There’re a lot of gullies and depressions,” Bob observed. “He could be hiding in any of them.”

“But why, Jupe?” Pete repeated, his voice mystified. “He didn’t seem to be carrying anything he could have stolen at the fire.”

“That is the question, Second.” Jupiter nodded. “And he’s around here somewhere. How far can he get on this end of the island? We must spread out and search. Use your flashlights sparingly. We don’t want him to see us.”

“Jupe’s right,” Bob declared. “We’ve got him trapped.”

They spread out like the police in the old Sherlock Holmes movie who were searching the moor for the hound of the Baskervilles. The fog drifted across the island, growing thicker and then blowing thinner, the moonlight darkening and brightening. They searched the washes and gullies until the island ended in a tiny hidden cove on its westernmost edge, protected from the open Pacific by a spit of land to the south and a shoulder of the great rock itself to the north.

“We’ve lost him” Pete said.

“It certainly seems that way” Jupiter said unhappily.

He led his friends out onto the spit of land, but no one was hiding there.

“What do we do now, First?” Bob asked as he looked down at the deserted, fog-shrouded cove.

“Return to where Sam Ragnarson disappeared and see if we can find any clues we missed. And if we don’t,” the well-bundled First Investigator went on behind his grotesque mask, “we go back to the fire and see if the Ragnarsons have discovered anything.”

With a last glance around the palely lit landscape, they turned to retrace their steps — and froze.

Down on the shore at the head of the tiny cove, a shadowy figure crouched and shone a powerful flashlight out to sea!

Holding their breath, the three boys watched the flashlight beam sweep back and forth through the fog like a long finger searching for something. A sea wind had come up, blowing the fog thinner in patches, and then thicker

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