Franklin's Island chapter threeOn the second morning, we thought we heard a plane. We scrambled out from under the overhang and ran about looking at the sky. There wasn’t a sign of anything moving, except for a few seabirds over the outer reef, but we were full of hope. We tipped out the rucksacks, and found a magnifying glass; we rushed about collecting dry leaves. Miranda used the magnifying glass as a burning glass, and got a twist of dry tinder alight. I hopped and limped along the shore picking up sticks; Arnie went crashing around under the trees. In an hour or so we had a fire going, and we were throwing green stuff on to make it smoke. Miranda waved a white nylon Planet Savers jacket that had been in Sophie Merrit’s rucksack. Arnie ran up and down screaming “Help! Help!” and waving his arms. The plane (if it had been a plane, and not our imagination) didn’t come back. The empty sea and sky looked at us blankly, as if we were mad.Miranda said, “Maybe they’ve seen us, and they can’t let us know yet.”“If there was a plane, you’d think the people in the life rafts would have sent up a flare,”
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