I was just about used up by the time we'd tried to drown each other out there." "We didn't know anything about it," explained Ossie, filling Phil's cup again unasked, "until someone happened to look from the _Follow Me_ and saw you three out there.

It was Tom Corwin, I think.

I heard him yelling--I was getting my clothes on down here--and I ran up on deck and then grabbed the megaphone and shouted to Steve and Wink and the others who were over on the rock near the inlet.

By the time they got it through their thick heads--" "Thick heads be blowed!" exclaimed Steve disgustedly.

"You were just yelling a lot of words that didn't mean anything.