Chapter 13 GOOD-BYE, MR. EPPY!
　　"Well!" said Dinah, finding her voice first. "Of all the cheek! Philip, he couldn't have been asleepwhen you saw him in his chair! He must have seen you looking at him and guessed you were up tosomething — and looked about till he found us.""Blow him," muttered Philip. "Now he's seen two of the bits. He knows what the island is toobecause the name was on that second bit. That's an awful bit of bad luck."They left the surprised little shop-woman and went moodily¹ up to the bow of the ship, glad to feel thewind in their faces. Micky had come down as soon as Mr. Eppy had left them, and Philip had his bitof paper back in safety. But the damage was done — Mr. Eppy had seen it!
　　"If there is anything in our idea, Mr. Eppy has seen enough to cotton on to it already," said Jackgloomily. "I can't say that we have been at all clever over this. Anything but.""Simply given our secret away," said Dinah. "We're losing our grip!""Anyway — I don't really see what we could have done about the treasure," said Lucy-Ann suddenly.
　　"I mean — we can't possibly go hunting for it, even if we knew exactly where it was. So we might aswell give it up, and if Mr. Eppy wants to go hunting after it, let him!""Well, I must say you're very generous, giving up what might have been our treasure — and justsaying Mr. Eppy can have it!" said Jack², exasperated³. "All because you don't want an adventureagain!"
　　"Oh, I say!" cried Kiki, and the children stopped talking at once. Kiki had given her usual signal forthe approach of Lucian. Up he came, grinning amiably⁴. He appeared completely to have forgotten hislast meeting with them in his cabin, when he had been in tears. His face still looked a bit blotched,but otherwise he seemed very cheery.
　　"Hallo!" he cried. "Where on earth have you been the last half-hour? I've been looking for youeverywhere. I say, look what Uncle's given me!"He showed the children some pieces of Greek money. "I expect he was sorry for going for me likethat, don't you?" he chattered⁵ on. "Anyway, he's in a very good temper now. Aunt can't understandit!"

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