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Armed with shovels they attacked the dark, soft earth at a place the professor indicated. For an hour or more they worked and filled three of the lead carboys. Then Jack spoke. "It's queer," he said, "but I begin to feel terribly tired, and I haven't worked long, either." "So do I," said Tom. "I don't feel as if I could lift another shovelful." "I'm all in," added Dick, throwing down his spade.
"They stowed their spare canvas in the 'tween-deck on top of the cargo," said Boston; "and the carboys " "And the carboys burst from the heat and ruined the sails," broke in the doctor. "But another question is, what became of that acid?" "If it's not in the 'tween-deck yet, it must be in the hold leaked through the hatches." "I hope it hasn't reached the iron in the hull, Boston, my boy.
"Same here. Jes' 'bout tuckered out," chimed in Zeb. "It's the effect of the stuff we are working in," said the professor. "Anyhow, we've done enough for to-day. We'll load the lead carboys on the Wondership and then knock off. I don't want you boys to get sick." They took the loaded carboys to the grounded craft and the professor sealed and soldered a cover on each of them.
"Certainly, Van Nant would have been glad to see a spoke put in that particular wheel; though I freely confess I do not see what good could come of preventing it by doing away with Carboys, as he would then be in as bad a position as if the marriage had been allowed to proceed as planned. Either way he loses Carboys' companionship and assistance; and his one wish would be to preserve both.
In point of fact, he disliked her very much indeed, and viewed the approaching wedding with extreme disfavour." "And yet you say that nobody had an interest in doing Carboys some sort of mischief in order to prevent that wedding from being consummated, Mr. Narkom," said Cleek with a shrug of the shoulders.
Two minutes later he rejoined them in the little drawing-room, where the growling captain was still demanding the whole time and attention of his daughter, and, the motor being ready, the three men walked out, got into it, and were whisked away to the house which once had been the home of the vanished George Carboys.
When it was finished, Miss Morrison tells me, Carboys, after laughing fit to split his sides over the predicament of the hero of the book, cried out: 'By George! I wish some old genie would take it into his head to hunt me up, and try the same sort of a dodge with me. He wouldn't find this chicken shying his gold and his gems back at his head, I can tell you.
"To say nothing of leaving Van Nant to rub along as best he could without any assistance from Carboys," commented Cleek. "I think I can guess a portion of what resulted, Mr. Narkom. Van Nant did not, of course, in these circumstances have any tender regard for Miss Morrison." "No, he did not.
From the first I felt sure he was at the bottom of the affair, that he had lured Carboys back to the house, and murdered him; but it puzzled me to think what could possibly have been done with the body. I felt pretty certain, however, when I saw that monstrous statue." "Yes, but why?" "My dear Mr. Narkom, you ought not to ask that question.
It happened that on the night Miss Morrison got this book, and read it aloud for the amusement of her father and lover, Carboys had persuaded Van Nant to spend the evening with them. Apparently he enjoyed himself, too, for he laughed as boisterously as any of them over the farcical tale, and would not go home until he had heard the end of it.
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