A Series of Books for the Queen of the Sea

Bathing beach was empty. As he walked back, he saw what looked like a clump of seaweed on the sand, which would have been most unusual. He ran to it and found that it was George's pajamas, lying where he had apparently taken them off on going into the water.

By this time, Jeanne was walking toward him a ways up the beach. Waving to her and running to meet her, seeing her running too, James met Jeanne quickly, imparting the information that George's pajamas were on the beach, and it looked as though he had gone swimming. James would need help. Would Jeanne wake Ralph, Paul and Ron, if she could, and get them to come help? He was going to swim out to the reef to see if he could find any signs of George out there. Jeanne nodded and ran back toward camp. Dropping his sulu next to George's pajamas, James dove into the water and swam rapidly out to the reef, aiming for the area where the ship had gone down, since that was the area George had asked about.