If Jim says anything we'll chuck him overboard." They rowed towards Avon Glen, and to their surprise Wright, who stood there alone (for with a pocket telescope they clearly made out that it _was_ Wright), still continued to wave his arms and beckon them in a manner which they at first thought ridiculous, but which soon make them feel rather uneasy.

Jim took an oar, and they soon got within two hundred yards of the beach.

Wright had ceased to make signals, but appeared to be shouting to them, and pointing towards one corner of the glen; but though they caught the sound of his voice they could not hear what he said.
"I wonder why Vernon isn't with him," said Eric anxiously; "I hope--why, what _are_ you looking at, Charlie ?" "What's that in the water there ?" said Wildney, pointing in the direction to which Wright was also looking.
Montagu snatched the telescope out of his hand and looked.

"Good God!" he exclaimed, turning pale; "what can be the matter ?" "O _do_ let me look," said Eric.
"No! stop, stop, Eric, you'd better not, I think; pray don't, it may be all a mistake.

You'd better not--but it looked--nay, you really _mustn't,_ Eric," he said, and, as if accidentally, he let the telescope fall into the water, and they saw it sink down among the seaweeds at the bottom.
Eric looked at him reproachfully.