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"I'll talk to the boys later." "I wonder what he wants?" thought Jerry. "Something of a favor, I'll bet. I know his kind." "Let me take the oars and relieve you," proposed Ned, who saw that the man was having rather hard work with the boatload of young people. "Thank you, there's another pair in the stern, if you want to try them," said Mr. Blowitz, and Ned got them out.
"Well, I must have your answer soon," said Blowitz, approaching nearer to the boat. "Will you wait just a moment?" asked Jerry. "My chums and I will go in the cabin and talk it over. We'll let you know right away." "I'll wait five minutes," said the man. "Time is precious to me. I have lots to do. But I know you'll go. I'll raise the offer five hundred dollars. Now, that's the best I can do.
"My name is Carson Blowitz, and though it sounds foreign I was born in this country. I travel around so much I can't give you any particular place as my residence." There was no way without being rude of avoiding shaking hands with the man, and, though there was something in his manner that caused the boys to feel a distrust of him, they were not going to be impolite on mere suspicion.
Presently Blowitz, who had momentarily vanished amid the shadows at the foot of the cliff, appeared. "Good evening, boys," he said. "I " he stopped suddenly, "I didn't know you had young ladies aboard." "Yes, we have been taking a moonlight run," Jerry explained. "We saw you up there on the cliff, and " "I was there with a friend of mine," Blowitz spoke quickly.
"Do you?" asked the stout youth. "Sure, Chunky." "Then, maybe you'll quit making fun of me," was Bob's answer, as, from one of the lockers he drew out a bulky package. "What is it?" asked Jerry. "Sandwiches and cake. I bought 'em in the little booth where we had chocolate with Mr. Blowitz the other day. I thought we might be hungry, so I got 'em while you were tinkering with the engine.
"I thought you were writing about horned toads," said Bob. "So I am, but this is another book. This will be in seventeen volumes, with colored plates. I want to get all the information I can, about rats." "I'm sorry that I can't help you," replied Mr. Blowitz. "In fact I know little about the abandoning of the brig, except what I heard.
Outside they could hear Blowitz pacing up and down on the rocky shore. "Well, what do you fellows say?" he asked. "I'd like the trip," said Ned, wistfully. "The money is a large sum," added Bob. "Then you want to go?" asked Jerry. "I'll do just what ever you do. I'll tell him we'll go." "No! Don't!" cried Nellie in a tense whisper. "Jerry boys don't have anything to do with this man.
"It is valuable merchandise. Of course there was some money, and some valuable papers, but the main part of the cargo was costly merchandise. I'll tell you how it happened. But first, let us have some more chocolate," and he called to the Mexican girl waiter. When the cups had been filled Mr. Blowitz resumed his story.
De Vere fell over backward, unconscious, while, around the silent forms in the cabin wreathed a thin bluish vapor that came from the locker where the safe had been, and where there were some small boxes the same mysterious boxes that Blowitz had shipped from Cresville.
"Now what I am going to ask of you boys is this: Will you go with me in your motor boat and search for the brig? Wait; do not give me an answer now. I think I can prove to you that I have a right to the abandoned ship, and I will pay you well for your time and trouble. Better than Blowitz offered to. But do not decide in a hurry.
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