CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.
THE VOYAGE OF THE COCK-HOUSE.
Yorke was roused before daybreak next morning by a voice at his bedside.
"Is that you, Yorke ?" The voice was Mr Stratton's.

The captain bounded to his feet at once.
"What is it, sir?
Has he been found ?" "No," said the master; "no news.

Every place has been searched where he would be likely to be, except the mountain.

It seems a very off-chance that he has gone up there; still, it is possible.

He has been on it once or twice before.