"Boys,
after writing that letter in the drug-store, I forgot to mail it, and
just felt it in my coat pocket. Well, it's safe in the mail-box, at
last."
"We were just saying," Hal announced, "that it's funny the others haven't
come along. We better go back and get Eph, anyway?"
"It will be a good idea," nodded Radwin.
Of course, when they reached the corner at which they had left young
Somers, he was not there.
"I wonder if he has gone back and joined the party at the hotel?"
queried Hal.
"We can soon find out," declared Jack.
"Suppose you and I walk down there, then, Hastings?" suggested Radwin.
"We can leave Benson here, to tell Somers where we are, if he comes back
this way."
"You wait here, Hal," suggested Jack. "There's a little matter I want
to speak to Mr. Farnum about, anyway."
So Hastings was left at the corner. He saw Jack and the Rhinds man go
in through the hotel entrance.
Then, hearing steps, Hal turned to see two sailors approaching. They
wore the uniform of the United States Navy. Hastings regarded them with
the friendly interest that he, like most other Americans, always felt
for sailors.
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