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against that end.” He pointed to the left hand corner of the storehouse.
    The ghost yelled out again. “Come
midnight
and you will be cursed forever! Get off my island! This is my last warning!”
    Joe turned to Will. “Let’s get back to the girls before they get too scared.” As they headed back, he spotted something on the ground. He picked it up. It was a cigarette butt. One that had not been there for long. He showed it to Will. “Look.”
    A grin spread across Will’s face. “Gosh! It must be a person up there.”
    “But how do we prove it?” Joe asked.
    “I’ve got a plan. Just follow my lead.” Will led the way out of the storehouse and found the girls huddled together behind a rock.
    “Did you find anything?” Sarah asked.
    Will shook his head. “No, let’s go home.”
    “I never want to come here again,” Joe said.
    Amy looked shocked. “What? But you just said—”
    “I was wrong,” Joe interrupted. “Come on, let’s go. Just standing here is giving me the creeps.”
    As the two boys hurried towards the hill, Amy shot a glance at Sarah. “What just happened?”
    “I don’t know,” Sarah replied, “but I’m happy to be going back. Come on, last one to reach the boys has to make lunch.” She sprinted off after the boys.
    ~
    By the time the children arrived back at the campsite, the girls knew the story behind the boy’s weird actions as they had told them everything.
    The girls may have been scared by a ghost , but if it was a person, which the boys were certain it was, that meant that someone was trying to scare them away. And , if someone was trying to scare them away they probably had something to hide.
    “The man might still be watching us,” Will said, “so we have to pretend we’re leaving the island.”
    “And then what?” Amy asked.
    “We’ll row around the island until we find another place to hide the boat,” Will said. “Then, after we have set up camp somewhere else, we’ll see if we can find out what’s going on.”
    The children packed up their stuff and headed down the path to the beach. After they had put everything on board, they set off.
    Will and Joe took the oars while the girls kept a lookout. They didn’t want to hoist the sail since they would be going close to dangerous rocks and, if the sail was up, the boat would only go the way of the wind, and thus might smash against the rocks.
    There were a few tense moments as the boys rowed out of the inlet, but soon they were out on calm water.
    Will stopped rowing for a moment and scanned the horizon as the Lazy Lucy bobbed to and fro on the water. “We’ll head left. There should be fewer rocks on the side closest to the mainland, but keep your eyes open.”
    “For rocks or the ghost?” Joe asked.
    “For both,” Will replied grimly. He steered the Lazy Lucy towards the mainland. “Most likely, the person is camped on the other side of the island where we haven’t been yet. So we shouldn’t go too far.”
    “What about here?” Sarah asked as she pointed towards the shore.
    Will looked over and saw a small section of sand and, next to it, a half-flooded cave. An idea crept into his mind. “Yes, that might work.”
    “What do you mean?” Joe asked.
    Will glanced at his watch. “ It’s high tide now, and that cave looks deep enough to sail into.”
    “But if it’s high tide now, what happens at low tide?” Amy questioned.
    “Well, the Lazy Lucy would be beached on the sand. But that will be okay. We just need to keep her out of view of anyone on this island.” Will peered towards the sharp rocks that bordered the cave. “It’s going to be tight, but I think we can just squeeze in there.”
    Amy moved up to the front of the boat. “I’ll be the lookout out front.”
    There was a ring of rocks around the cave, with only one opening. It was going to be touch and go. And they had to be fast. Any slowdown on speed and the boat would drift to the left or right, which would put it on