It's just a dodge of those two to get a jolly good spree for themselves.

Pooh! They'll get lost.

We shall have to go and look for them, most likely." "And then," said Lickford, "somebody will have to come and look for us." "And Rollitt's not here to do it," said Fisher minor.
This cast the company back on to their original subject.
"It's my notion," said Wally, "he's got on the island in the middle of the lake, like Robinson Crusoe." "Rather a lark," said Ashby, "to get up a search-party and go and look for him there." The idea took wonderfully.

To-day was "Founder's Day," a whole holiday.
They would certainly go and look for Rollitt on the island.
The preparations disclosed an odd conception on the part of the explorers of the serious nature of their quest.

Their stated object was to rescue a lost schoolfellow.