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Guys my size could man the ferry rockets bringin' up fuel for storage, and four of us could take a six-hundred-ton rocket an' slide out to Mars an' be back by springtime next springtime! with all the facts and the photographs to prove 'em! By golly " Then he made a raging, helpless gesture. "But that's just the big picture," he said bitterly.
To carry the weight of the ship it's smaller! fifty tons maximum!" "I see...," said Sally, frowning. He looked at her suspiciously, but there was no mockery in her face. "It'd take a six-hundred-ton rocket to get a full-sized man to the moon," he said with sudden flippancy, "but a guy my size could do the same job of stranglin' in a fifty-ton job.
They formed a partnership and were able to find the necessary capital. This six-hundred-ton ship loomed huge in the ayes of the crowds which visited her. She was in fact no larger than such four-masted coasting schooners as claw around Hatteras with deck-loads of Georgia pine or fill with coal for down East, and manage it comfortably with seven or eight men for a crew.
Captain John paused with this peroration: he dug a hole in the wet sand with the toe of his boot, and watched it slowly fill. "'Twas a bait most any one would 'a' smelt of, a six-hundred-ton ship and every timber in her sound; but you'd 'a' thought he'd been more cautious, knowin' what he did of her. She was bound to have him, though."
The public did not know it was there, but the financial men knew it, and it seemed as if they had huddled all their offices and banks and safe-deposit vaults under its shelter. Here, far underground, were hidden the two hundred millions of securities of the Oil Trust in a huge six-hundred-ton steel vault, with a door so delicately poised that a finger could swing it on its hinges.
"Pretty tough ribs to break, too," remarked the captain, with a look of profound distress. "You are right," returned the doctor; "remarkably tough, but not quite fitted to withstand such a powerful battering-ram as the mainmast of a six-hundred-ton barque." "Now, doctor, what's to be done with him?
But having already gone so far I approached a little nearer and declared the purpose of my visit. He would have to come at once with me, sleep on board my ship, and to-morrow, with the first of the ebb, he would give me his assistance in getting my ship down to the sea, without steam. A six-hundred-ton barque, drawing nine feet aft.
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