The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island

se latitudes the full moon arose over the hills, and all the sta

d the night was a glorious one, the air warm and balmy, the breeze just enough to

n deck for the most part, and enjoyed the beautiful evening, being dispers

a few of the boys who were seated on deck with him, "and I s

not feel it," returned Percival. "I hardly think there is one, and it seems strange

I believe you are liable to catch anything at any time here from

ad for that much. We will make the best of this

e most of the fine night, but they were all up early the next morning, anxious to

saw Dr. Wise talking to the captain and the first officer, there bein

est conversation, and Jack heard a little of it as he came forwa

. "The next high tide may raise us, and it may not. It is my opinion that we have been on t

not taken in any water?" asked the doctor, looking fixed

ral rock you find in these parts that will cut a hole in anything that touches it. No, it is simpl

ink there is any ca

igher water. We can tell to-night. Meanwhile, there are the boats, and your young gentlemen may go on shore and explore the

ow which one

I d

over the rail, and Jack went up to B

ere we are, either

same predicament. He says we am in de tropics at a island ob not werry big size an' importance, but Ah wa

rs used to roam," said the old sailor whose name Jack learned later was Ben Bowline, "and

ing for such things. I don't believe that Captain Kidd buried the hundredth part of the gold

r lives at it and don't get nothing. This here is one of them islands, and I thought m

hat the Hilltop boys have a g

o explore the island and amuse themselves in various ways while the captain sent a party

one boat, and were the first to land, walking up the b

into the deep everglade, the lush undergrowth sometimes quit

have to make a path so that we could get about with greater rapi

rapid, as the undergrowth was less ra

d gave constant delight to young Smith and some of the others, but Jack and Percival were more intent on seei

en to the sky than the parts already traversed, "or we should have seen them by this time. I think we have bee

h we may have to climb if we keep str

ery high nor far away. If they want us back at

advance and at length, without noticing it, began to descend, the way being good at time

nd," said Harry, "for no one seems to have been through

ong Broadway in New York," rejoined Je

ead of up," observed Arthur, "and we thoug

ain," said Jack. "It looks all up from a distance, but there are often i

en," said Harry, "for we are going

l at length they came out upon a bare, rocky shore with huge masses of rock to the right and left, and

Jack, "and we have not climbed our hills at all or e

of the island," said Percival. "See how the surf dashes

ry big, I take it, and is probably difficult of access. We seem to have come to

great mass of rocks higher than those at hand, to the east of the larger mass c

cross," he said, "and in any event, we know the general

from where they had started, finding Billy Manners an

Would you believe it, they don't know what this isl

asked Harry. "I

s it is a sort of lost island, and they never thought enough of it to give it a

bserved Jack. "Suppose we call it that while

They started the engines, and backed her off a sand bank or whatever it was we were on,

sked all the b

e seems to be no way of getting beyond them. There seem to be openings here and there, b

st Island, and are lost