Chapter 14 THE CASTAWAY

Kayak Bill was the first to find voice.

"By the roarin' Jasus,"-his tones trembled with enormous astonishment-"if it ain't young Harlan!"

"My God, Gregg, has anything happened to the schooner?" shouted

Boreland, his long stride covering the distance to the porch.

"Not a thing that I know of, Skipper." The young man, with a weary gesture