CHAPTER VIICHICK’S FELLOW PRISONER
We must go back to the early morning, at Crownledge, to find out how Marcos and Chick had been kidnapped in the very midst of their friends.
The only thing Chick knew was that, when he had taken the power boat back to its owner, Joe Travers, he was coming up through the grounds of the big residence, and suddenly found himself overpowered by several men whom he could not see.
A sandbag knocked him nearly senseless, and then a bag was pulled over his head and he was carried some little distance, until he felt himself in a boat, rocking rather violently.
He soon recovered entire consciousness, but found his arms bound so tightly outside the sack that he could not move.
There was rather a long trip on the boat, which, from its sound and motion, he soon k
