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"Know any more stunning tricks like that one?" Benson inquired. "I'll show you!" panted Don, leaping up. As he did so, he caught sight of the smiling faces of Messrs. Farnum and Pollard, strolling up from the boatyard gateway.
My load doesn't seem to weigh more than seven ounces," Darrin declared, as he shouldered one of the piles of bark. "Lighter than air this morning," quoth Tom, "and only a short haul at that." When Hiram Driggs reached his boatyard at eight o'clock he found Dick & Co. waiting for him. "Well, well, well, boys!" Mr. Driggs called cheerily. "So you didn't back out." "Did you think we would, sir?"
And this time the boats were planned with some regard to the waters upon which they were to be used. McDonald was sent to superintend their building at the boatyard of H. H. Douglas & Co., Waukegan, Illinois. There were three, each twenty-two feet long, the same as our boats, four and one-half feet beam, and twenty-two inches deep, and each weighed 850 pounds.
Through the side streets he went, keeping a sharp lookout. Conscious of the fact that he was bent on an unworthy errand, Fred did not care to be recognized abroad at this unusual hour. In a few minutes he had reached the boatyard. This was surrounded by a high board fence, and the gate was locked. "It won't do to get over the fence," young Ripley decided. "I might be seen and watched.
The means of accomplishing that purpose he must decide upon when he reached the boatyard. How dark it was, and how hot! Late as the hour was the baking heat of the day did not seem to have left the ground. Fred walked along rapidly, fanning his perspiring face with his straw hat. "They'll have their war canoe in the water in a few days, will they?" the lawyer's son muttered. "Humph!"
At first, Dan tried his old tactics of balking, but a few energetic, rough-and-ready punches from Eph caused the bully to change his mind. After that he went along in sullen silence. It was not long before the quartette turned down into the shore road that led up to the boatyard. As they came near the big gate, still closed to the public, the boys beheld a crowd of several Hundred people.
Then he turned and stalked away, muttering under his breath. "Well, I swan!" remarked Jabez Holt again, now stepping out onto the porch. "I guess that sartain done Dan Jaggers some good. He needs some of that medicine, friends. An' say, here's Josh Owen coming up from Farnum's boatyard."
"Well, down to Farnum's boatyard they're putting up a craft that's known as 'Pollard's Folly." "And why wouldn't they want that photographed?" demanded young Benson. "Because it's one of them sure-death boats they hope to sell the Government, and the United States Government don't care 'bout havin' its war craft secrets snap-shotted," replied Jabez Holt.
Holt, pointing to a high board fence that enclosed a space down by the water front. Farnum's "boatyard," as thus seen, was about an eighth of a mile from the little hotel, and looked as though it might be considerable of a plant. "Who's in charge of the boat?" was Jack's next question. "Well, now, that's a conundrum," replied Jabez Holt, pondering. "Jake Farnum owns the yard.
"That's 'who is it. As to 'what is it, if you'll take a quick run over to my office at the boatyard I'll tell you the rest of it." "What on earth can you want to see me about?" Fred demanded. Even over the wire, the note of dismay in Ripley's voice was plainly evident to Driggs, who chuckled. "I can't tell you, over the wire, all that I want to see you about," Driggs replied.
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