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　　Another surprise
　　They all sat up and removed the slippery seaweed from themselves. Huffin and Puffin walkeddown Philip’s body, where they had perched the whole time. Kiki, to her fright and dismay, hadbeen covered with seaweed by Jack¹, and forced to stay beside him, for he was afraid she mightgive them away by talking. She talked angrily now.
　　‘Poor, poor Polly! Send for the doctor! What a pity, what a pity, ding dong bell, Polly’s in thewell!’
　　The children looked at one another solemnly when they had finished uncovering themselves.
　　Bill was in great danger, there was no doubt of that at all.
　　‘What are we going to do?’ said Lucy-Ann, with tears in her eyes. Nobody quite knew. Thereseemed to be danger wherever they turned.
　　‘Well,’ said Jack at last, ‘we’ve got a boat of our own, that’s one thing – and I think when it’sdark tonight we’d better set out for the other island, the one the men are on, and see if we can’tfind where they keep their motor-boat. We know that Bill will be there.’
　　‘And rescue him!’ said Dinah, thrilled. ‘But how shall we get close in to shore without beingseen or heard?’
　　‘We’ll go when it’s dark, as I said,’ said Jack, ‘and when we get near to the shore, we’ll stop ourengine and get the oars². Then we can row in without being heard.’
　　‘Oh, yes. I’d forgotten there were oars in our boat,’ said Dinah. ‘Thank goodness!’
　　‘Can’t we get back to our little cave, on the shore at the other side of the island?’ asked Lucy-Ann. ‘I don’t feel safe here, somehow. And I’d be glad to know our boat was all right.’
　　‘Also, we can’t have anything to eat till we get back there,’ said Philip, getting up. ‘Come on,I’m frozen. We shall get warm climbing up the rocks, on to the height over there, and then overthe island to the boat.’
　　So they went back over the rocks, and found their clothes where they had left them. Theystripped off their wet suits and dressed quickly. Philip’s rats, which he had left in his pockets, wereextremely pleased to see him again, and ran all over him with little squeals³ of delight.
　　Huffin and Puffin accompanied the children as usual. All of them were secretly relieved to findtheir boat was safe on the

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