CHAPTER VIII
A HINT OF GHOSTS
"Who can they be?"
"It sounds like more than one!"
"Anyhow, they can't get out!"
It was Betty who said this last, Grace and Mollie having made the foregoing remarks. And Betty had no sooner detected the presence on the Gem of stowaways than she had pulled shut the sliding door leading into the trunk cabin, and had slid the hatch cover forward, fastening both with the hasps.
"They'll stay there until we get an officer," she explained. "Probably they are tramps!"
"Oh, Betty!" It was a startled trio who cried thus.
"Well, maybe only boys," admitted the Little Captain, as a concession. "They may have come aboard, intending to go off for a ride in my boat, and we came just in time. They hid themselves in there. That's what I think about it."
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