16/27 It soon grew too dark to distinguish them, and Montagu at full speed flew to Ellan, which was a mile off. When he got to the harbor he told some sailors of the danger in which his friends were, and then ran on to the school. It was now eight o'clock, and quite dark. Tea was over, and lock-up time long past, when he stood excited, breathless, and without his jacket, at Dr. "O sir!" he exclaimed, bursting in, "Williams and Russell are on the Stack, cut off by the tide." Dr.Rowlands started up hastily. |