Trouble!
William!" she called aloud. "Where are you?"
Ted and Jan looked at one another. Hal seemed startled. The same
thought came to all three of them:
"Suppose Trouble had fallen down the big hole at the gold mine?"
CHAPTER XVI
A GLAD SURPRISE
Janet, Ted and Hal started to run.
"Where are you going?" called Mrs. Martin after them. "Wait for
Trouble!" "We're going to find him," answered Janet.
"Maybe he fell down the big hole we dug for a gold mine," added Ted.
"What do you mean?" gasped Mrs. Martin.
"What have you Curlytops been up to now?" asked Grandpa Martin.
"We dug a big hole to find the gold the tramps are looking for on this
island," explained Hal, who walked on slowly, following Mrs. Martin,
who had run after Ted and Janet. "Maybe the little boy fell into it."
"Where did you dig the big hole?" asked grandpa, and he, too, began to
be afraid that something had happened.
"Up near what Ted calls the cave. It's got a ladder in it, our gold
mine hole has, and maybe Trouble could climb out on that."
"If it's a hole deep enough for a ladder, I'm afraid he couldn't,"
said Grandpa Martin. "You children must have dug a pretty big hole."
"We wanted to find the gold," explained Hal.
"What gold?"
"The gold the tramps are looking for here on Star Island. Ted told me
about them, and I suppose they were after gold.
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