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The speed of the marvelous little motor-boat apparently was satisfactory to all concerned, except Sam. He growled and protested that there was something wrong with the boat and declared that unless they kept a careful watch, other things that would be still worse might occur.
"Look yonder!" said George, suddenly pointing as he spoke to a yacht that was swiftly approaching from the Canadian side of the river. "Do you know what boat that is?" exclaimed John. "We ought to know it," said Fred. "That's the Varmint II." "She beat us down here by a good deal," suggested George, who was keenly observing the graceful and swift little motor-boat that was steadily approaching.
We are going to have the time of our lives with that motor-boat." The door shook with Phil's disapproval. "You do talk like an American," she flung at me through the panel. "That's good. I'm glad adoption hasn't ruined me," I retorted. "But could you just because you're English contentedly give up our beautiful plans, and settle down as if nothing had happened with your type-writer?"
On this day of the 'gator hunt, Molly took the wheel and her father ran the engine of the motor-boat, while Ned and the captain poled the skiff and Dick stood in the bow with the harpoon pole. They soon started a nine-foot alligator out of his cave, and after a chase of ten minutes and a few sudden turns were so near the reptile that Dick fixed his harpoon to the end of the pole and stood ready.
"Yes, I think she's as successful on the waves as he was in the clouds," agreed Dick, as he looked at a speed-measuring gage. "We're hitting up forty miles an hour right now." "And that's good speed for a craft of this size in the water, or, rather, on top of the water," declared Lieutenant McBride. For a hydroplane craft, as you probably know, does not go through the water as a motor-boat does.
When the rains had finished, by May, 1916, in the Belgian Congo, General Molitor began to move upon Tanganyika. Soon our motor-boat flotilla and the Belgian launches and seaplanes had swept the lake of German shipping; and the first Belgian force landed and occupied Ujiji, the terminus of the Central Railway.
He has the brain and the creative impulse, but he has been cheated of his opportunity. I should enjoy giving him a boost. Occasionally I fling away a small sum on a whim that catches my fancy; now its German marks, now an abandoned farm. This time it shall be Mr. Willie Spence and his motor-boat idee." He laughed. "I appreciate it tremendously," Bob said.
Choate made preparations to attack it. Reaching the proper position, a hand harpoon was thrown by him. It found its mark, and away went the great fish at so fast a clip that the line fairly smoked as it shot from the reel barrel. In a few moments it was all out, and then the motor-boat gave a jump forward and rushed after the herring-hog. He was towing it, as if it had been a chip!
Even the key of the boat-house had been mislaid by Isabel's fault, her husband said and the locksmith had to be called in to make a new one when the purchase of the motor-boat made the lake once more the centre of Stilling's activity.
The task at last having been completed, the Go Ahead boys at once started toward the dock where their motor-boat had been left. As they drew near the place, John suddenly stopped and clutching George by his arm, who was walking beside him, said, "Look at that man over on the dock! Who is it?" "It's the fellow who was the leader of that gang of canal-men that boarded us the other morning."
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