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Swift was getting rather along in age, and his long years of brain work had made him nervous. He had a great fear of Morse and his gang, for they had made much trouble for him in the past. Tom appreciated his chum's hesitancy, and guessed that Ned had something to say that he did not want Mr. Swift to hear. "Come on up to my room, Ned.
Then Ned uttered a cry, as he saw some dull, grayish particles imbedded in the earth walls of the shaft. "Look!" he cried. Tom was at his chum's side in a moment "That's platinum!" cried the young inventor. "And of the very highest grade! But the lumps are very small." "There are larger ones beyond," said the younger Russian brother.
But the lad's grasp upon his chum's arm was so tight that it dragged Jack along with him; and the two boys fell into the sea together. Aboard both British ships all was confusion now. With startled cries, men rushed on deck. Unable to see in the dense fog, they became panic stricken. While these same men would have faced death bravely in battle, they were completely bewildered at this moment.
Well, you may talk about joining the church on probation all you please, but they get their arm around a girl all the same. Pa hugged my chum till he says he thought Pa would break his sister's corset all to pieces, and he squeezed my chum's hand till the ring cut right into his finger and he has to wear a piece of court plaster on it.
Then she threw her arms about Betty's neck, and began to laugh hysterically. "Don't mind me," she gasped, as the boys looked on mystified. "I I can't help it! I'm just so so happy!" Betty patted her chum's shoulder, soothingly. "Now, see what you've gone and done," she accused poor Will. "I I didn't know " he was beginning, but he seemed destined not to finish his sentences that day.
"What is it air, earth or water?" asked Ned Newton, for he knew his chum's activities led along all three lines. "This happens to be air." "A new balloon?" "Something like that. I call it my aerial warship, though." "Aerial warship, Tom! That sounds rather dangerous!" "It will be dangerous, too, if I can get it to work. That's what it's intended for." "But a warship of the air!" cried Ned.
"And all the time you were keeping this to yourself for the sake of treasure, and in order to have your own way, and run off?" "Yes, sir." "And you knew that your chum's father was elected here to enforce the law, and that the guilty should be punished all this you knew?" "Yes, sir." "And yet you did all that you did all that you have told?" "Yes, sir." Well, then Major Abbott took another turn.
"Don't you do it, old fellow don't you dare!" ordered Hal, sitting up straighter and resting an appealing hand on his chum's shoulder. "But think of the lives that have been lost on submarine boats during the last few years," pleaded Jack Benson, seriously. "And you want to add your life to the others," retorted Hal, with mocking irony.
Frank uttered almost in his chum's ear as he craned his own neck in order to see better. The small boy on the tired broncho, and leading the patient burro, kept on steadily advancing, apparently allowing his animal to follow its nose, as though it knew the way fairly well from having passed along it before. "Look! look!" ejaculated Frank suddenly, jumping to his feet. "Great guns!
"Do not weep, Roger, old friend," he said, noticing the tears running down his chum's face; "they have done their utmost on me, and I shall not last out long enough to surfer at their hands again. Nay, Roger, dear lad, it is of no use. You cannot save me, and indeed I do not desire to live; for of what use would life be to one in my condition?
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