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If he finds them , they can all sail over to Big Duck Island tonight or to-morrow morning and join us there . If he does n't see anything of them , he can come back here to Lanesport , and spend the night in the Eagle House . Then the rest of us will join him tomorrow afternoon , with or without Captain Bannister , as the case may be . But we 'll wait at Big Duck till noon . '' When we got back to the yacht , there was the Chief , peacefully reading a last year 's magazine . We routed him up , and cooked the dinner . While we were eating , the question arose : who was to go to Rogers 's Island ?