The boat had the island with all the kids except the deceased. On the boat ride home there was very little coversation on the boat except for the officers repeating the same question over and over again; "weren't there more of you kids, what happened to the rest of you." Everybody was rather silent and didn't really cooperate with the superiors. Ralph was still frightened by what Jack might do to him if he ever told about what happened on the island. There were many officers on the boat so Ralph wasn't really worried about Jack at the tim ....