Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 243 pages with b&w illustrations by Ralph Ray. The story of three kids Nick 9, Penny 13, brother and sister,who run away from the orphanage, and Ben 15, who owns the sloop on which they hide. Ben's uncle is about to sell the boat because Ben's father has been long missing in action and belived dead. Ben escapes with the orphans on the sloop and the adventure begins. Endpapers map, clean copy, no dust jacket.