The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island

k on the rocks to get more of the treasure in the hold,

there were stories of fabulous wealth afloat in a short time, all the boys, with a few e

ting in our way," sputtered Percival when it was suggeste

way," said young Dickson, "a

how?" asked Percival. "We di

dy knows about it. I heard Herring talking about it. He seems

e most of our adventures, but I don't think you had better go this time. We have promised to take young Jesse W. with us, as he was there the fir

alf laughing, half impatient. "You should not appeal to a boy's im

tell you about it. I'll write a composition about it, and you will th

ry, half cross and half good natu

give you a ten-dollar gold piece to hang on your watch cha

" said Harry in disgust. "Well, never mind. Billy Manners and I w

to get Jack, young Smith and the captai

s pocket flash along with him, having found it very

, but now the opening was so small, more rocks having fallen in, appare

isappointment. "The last time Dick and I were here we had to s

how you put me through the little window at the Academy, that time of the rebellion in the school? Well, you can use me now in the same way. I want to see that

, but not for himself or Percival, and, of course, out of the question for t

seem too bad that you should not see the place, having bee

w, Jack, and perhaps go for another one after

s drowned many a man before now. Get the rope, Dick. We will lower him into the place

l I come to a door, and then go along a passage till I come to another door and

oad yourself down with bags of gold. I'd rat

danger, Jack?" asked the younger b

d I would no

en he had reached the bottom that he was all right, and then t

oice growing fainter every time he called,

the boy had been gone a few minutes. "I tho

t anything that can happen to him. The rocks hold the vessel as tight as a vise an

begin to feel nervous, and wish

"He is not afraid of anything, and really I don't believe ther

a midget. If anything happened to him I should neve

will want to see all there is, boy-like. Let him have a good long look at the wond

, and the minutes seemed like hours till at last, holdi

Are you

d Jack. "Are

er my arms. I've got a bag of the stuff,

hat he detected something in the tone of the b

t till I get

d. Take y

led in a few moments. "I

rer and nearer to them, and at last drew him out of the hole, Jack noticing that

ow do you happen to be so wet?" h

the side somewhere. Maybe they had settled. Anyhow, I got the bag and here i

e would get the bag and he did, and standing in water up to his knees, and not knowing at

und, however, and said fai

and I hope it will be enough to keep you at the Acade

Jesse W., but you don't go back

the water had made its way in, had it? Tha

t was not coming in all the time nor fast, and I wanted to see t

tered Percival. "Much you could have kept it in that case. You ar

u say so, Dick," answ

captain. "He said he'd do a thing, an

row toward the reefs and as close to the stump of a mast a

g very violently at a point where they judged the cabin to be, and th

far as its level. She'll break up with all that water in

unken vessel, they saw them become more greatly agitated and Per

s a still greater agitation and a mass of broken timbers shot up i

the cabin again. You've made your last visit to the wreck, and if any one ever gets tha

k. "Come on, Dick,