Teddy, knowing that Phil seldom ever left the
stateroom after retiring, decided to go out to look for him.
He investigated the cabin, then going out on dock peered into
every shadow, calling softly for Phil.
Failing to get any trace of his chum, Teddy returned to his
cabin, put on his slippers and went down to the lower deck, where
he made inquiries of the watchman, but with no better success.
Teddy Tucker began to feel alarmed. He hurried to the upper deck
again, once more going over it carefully, as well as the inside
of the boat.
A terrible suspicion began to force itself upon him.
"Man overboard!" bellowed the Circus Boy. "Man overboard!"
He ran through the corridors shouting the startling cry, then
out to the deck repeating it as he ran.
The cry was taken up by others as they rushed from their cabins,
Mr. Sparling among the number.
"Where, where?" shouted the showman. "Who--who--"
"It's Phil! He's gone. He's over there, somewhere, I don't
know where!"
CHAPTER XXII
OVERBOARD INTO THE RIVER
"I can't understand it," Phil mused, as the soft evening breezes
lulled him into slumber.
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