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Updated: July 4, 2025
In fact, so fast did they get on, that by the time Harry and his father were called by Captain Hudgins to embark in the Flying Fish, the boys had become fast friends. The run to the shore was made quickly and by landing the two travelers at a point above Hampton they were enabled to make a train that would land them in the city in time for dinner. Mr.
Tugs would be dispatched as soon as the fog lifted, the operator at Fire Island announced. "That's a weight off my mind," breathed the captain, while Harry hastily confided to his father that the lads who had boarded the vessel out of the mist were Boy Scouts. "The fog is lifting," announced Rob, as they streamed out of the wireless room. "Yes, the wind has shifted," remarked Captain Hudgins.
"Ahoy, there, shipmates! Where are yer bound fer this fine, sunny day?" The lads looked up to see the weather-beaten countenance of Captain Job Hudgins, one of the characters of the vicinity. He was a former whaler, and lived on a small island some distance from Hampton.
Elinor asked; and Ormsby got down to investigate. "It is our brake connection," he announced, after a brief inspection. "And we are five good miles from Hudgins and his repair kit." A ring of town idlers was beginning to form about them. An automobile was still enough of a rarity in the mining-camp to draw a crowd. "Busted?" inquired one of the onlookers.
Then, after school, during recess, and for long minutes before the afternoon session, the alley which flanked the school yard was marked with rings of varying dimensions. The air resounded with cries of, "No hudgins," "H'ist," "Your shot," or "You dribbled," as the players contested for prizes of five- and six-for-a-cent clay marbles.
Rob, Merritt, Tubby Hopkins and Captain Hudgins rested, perspiring under the noon-day heat, on a group of flat rocks at the highest point of the island. Their search had been fruitless, and their downcast faces showed it. "How ever are we going to break the news to his parents?" Merritt it was who voiced the question that had been troubling all of them.
Arrived there, they selected a good spot for the camp, aided by Commodore Wingate's and Captain Hudgins' suggestions, and set up the tents and made the other necessary preparations. The camp was therefore practically ready, for the "army" to move into.
If there is no trace of Joe Digby on this side of the island, it is improbable that Captain Hudgins knows anything about him." "Well," rejoined Rob in a troubled voice, "we've got to try everything. I am responsible for his safe keeping while he is in camp. I blame myself for allowing the kid to go on sentry duty at all."
"Why, that it seems rather queer that Sam, who was round town desperately trying to raise money with which to get his boat out of pawn suddenly manages to redeem her, and that on the very day after the robbery of Captain Hudgins hut." "By hookey, that's right!" shouted Tubby. "I'll bet your guess was correct, Rob that gang of Jack's robbed the old captain."
The run to Topsail Island was made in record time, and as they drew near the little hummock of tree and shrub-covered land the boys could perceive that something unusual had happened. A figure which even at a distance they recognized as that of Captain job Hudgins was down on the little wharf, and had apparently been on the lookout there for some time.
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