Hardly had I reached the edge of the dark shadows than I was seized and a hand put over my mouth.

I had only time to let out one yell for help." "The one that woke me," put in Merritt, in parenthesis.
"That was it; I guess," went on the small lad, "well, I was picked up and carried some little distance to where they had a boat, and thrown into it.

Then the three men who were in the boat rowed to an island with a tent on it and there two of them got out.

The other, a fellow with a big beard and very dirty, then rowed over to this place with me and, after putting some bread and a bottle of water inside the door, closed and locked it.
"I carried on like a baby, I guess.

I cried for a long time and shouted, but no one came.