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And more, I will wager you $100, to be planked on the scratch! that J.A. Willey will neither kill or defeat T.F. Hazzard." The following extract from the correspondence is a sufficient index of slaveholding civilization. "Condition 1. "Condition 2. The parties to fight with broad-swords in the right hand, and a dirk in the left. "Condition 3.
It is a recorded fact that, from afar out in the Rockies, there came to Lieutenant Colonel Hazzard, Commandant of Cadets, a "wire" that puzzled him not a little until he laid it before his clear-headed wife, who gave him a delighted kiss and scurried away to show it to Mrs. Graham. It read: "You win. I lose; and, losing, am a heavy winner."
The command was speedily complied with in a few seconds one of the stanch lifeboats lay alongside. "Do you boys want to go?" asked Captain Hazzard. "Do we?" asked Billy. "I should say." "All right, away with you." "Can I go, too? I might get some specimens," asked the professor, eagerly. "Yes, but don't try to catch any more killer whales," was the answer, which brought a general laugh.
Suddenly a sharp voice rang out: "I'll shoot the first man that lays a hand on the boats!" It was Captain Barrington. He stood on the stern deck steadying himself against the rail. In his hands gleamed two revolvers. Beside him stood Captain Hazzard, a look of stern determination on his face.
No-o, she wasn't perfectly awful yes, she was pretty bad," Theodora admitted. "Wasn't she, Babbie?" "Oh, well" Barbara hesitated "she's of course she's terribly common. Just the second-rate actress type, don't you know?" "Did she call your Mother 'ma'am'?" giggled Enid Hazzard. "Do you remember when she said 'Yes, ma'am? And did she say 'eyether, and 'between you and I' again?"
"I do not doubt it," said Captain Barrington, dryly, "and, now, if you please, we will draw up and sign the paper." Ten minutes later, with the boys' signatures on it as witnesses, the important document was drawn up and sealed with a bit of wax that Captain Hazzard had in his pocket writing-set. And so ended the episode of the attempt to seize the treasure of the Viking ship.
They realized that they had been guilty of a breach of discipline in taking off the boat, and that, moreover, their disobedience had cost the expedition one of its valuable assets, for there was no hope of ever putting the smashed craft together again. On their return to the ship Captain Hazzard did not say much to them, but what he did say, as Billy remarked afterward, "burned a hole in you."
Captain Hazzard was called out on deck at this juncture and the boys, once he was out of the room, joined in a war dance round the swinging cabin table. "Boys, will you take me along when you go?" asked the professor anxiously. "If there is any chance of getting a Viking flea I would like to. It would make my name famous. I could write a book about it, too."
Therefore it is necessary, being we intend throughly to discourse this part, to examine if these innovators stand of themselves, or if they depend upon others; that is, if to bring their work to effect, it be necessary they should intreat, or be able to constrain; in the first case they allwayes succeed ill, and bring nothing to pass; but when they depend of themselves, and are able to force, then seldom it is that they hazzard.
Captain Hazzard glanced at him quickly. "Yes, the polar mystery," he repeated, "perhaps now is as good a time as any for telling you boys the secret of this voyage. Come to my cabin and I will tell you one of the objects of our expedition, which hitherto has been kept a secret from all but the officers."
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