Chapter Fifteen DICK TO THE RESCUE!
　　DICK caught hold of Anne's hand and pulled her quickly away from the cove¹. He was afraid thatwhoever had come to the island might be somewhere about and see them. The boy took Anne to thelittle stone room where their things were and they sat down in a corner.
　　"Whoever has come has discovered Julian and George smashing in that door, I should think,"said Dick, in a whisper. "I simply can't think what to do. We mustn't go down into the dungeons³ orwe'll most certainly be caught. Hallo— where's Tim off to?"The dog had kept with them for a while but now he ran off to the entrance of the dungeons. Hedisappeared down the steps. He meant to get back to George, for he knew she was in danger.
　　Dick and Anne stared after him. They had felt comforted while he was there, and now they weresorry he had gone.
　　They really didn't know what to do. Then Anne had an idea. "I know!" she said, "we'll row back tothe land in our boat and get help."
　　"I'd thought of that," said Dick, gloomily. "But you know perfectly⁴ well we'd never know the way inand out of those awful rocks. We'd wreck⁵ the boat. I'm sure we're not strong enough either to row allthe way back. Oh, dear— I do wish we could think what to do."They didn't need to puzzle their brains long. The men came up out of the dungeons and began to huntfor the two children! They had seen Tim when he came back and had found the note gone.
　　So they knew the two children had taken it— and they couldn't imagine why they had not obeyedwhat George had said in the note, and come down to the dungeons!
　　Dick heard their voices. He clutched hold of Anne to make her keep quiet. He saw through thebroken archway that the men were going in the opposite direction.
　　"Anne! I know where we can hide!" said the boy, excitedly. "Down the old well! We can climb downthe ladder a little way and hide there. I'm sure no one would ever look there!"Anne didn't at all want to climb down the well even a little way. But Dick pulled her to her feet andhurried her off to the middle of the old courtyard. The men were hunting around the other side of thecastle. There was just time to climb in. Dick slipped aside the old wooden cover of the well andhelped Anne down the ladder. She was very scared. Then the boy climbed down himself and slippedthe wooden cover back again over his head, as best he could.

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