CHAPTER XIX

THE FATE OF THE SLOOP The interest of the party ashore on Pirate Island in the attempts of the camera men to shoot tumbling surf without getting a bit of the shore in the picture and to fasten upon the lens a representation of the threatening clouds, was so great and so continuous that none of them noticed Tom Cameron’s disappearance with the _Trumpeter_. There was another object on the sea—approaching the island from the direction of Nassau—that finally attracted the gaze of some of the party. Skipper Isling point…