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"No, I don't know any remedy," said Montague, "but I am looking for one. And I can tell you of this, for a start; I value this Republic more than I do any business I ever got into yet; and if I come to that dilemma, it will be the business that will give way." Curtiss was watching him narrowly. He put his hand on his shoulder. "That's all right, old man," he said.
Stability problems had not yet been considered, and in only one or two cases was fin area added at the rear high up, to counterbalance the effect of the floats low down in front. Both twin and single-float machines were used, while the flying boat was only just beginning to come into being from the workshops of Sopwith in Great Britain, Borel-Denhaut in France, and Curtiss in America.
But here's the tough part of it it's going to cost fifty dollars for salvage to get her from the Dolphin's captain, the old shark!" "Phew!" whistled Jack Curtiss. "Pretty steep. But I suppose your old man will fork over, eh?" "That's just it," grumbled Sam; "he won't come across with a cent. I suppose, if I don't pay for the hydroplane's recovery pretty soon, she will be sold at auction."
It was this item that caught Jack Curtiss' eye, the next morning as he and Bill Bender and Sam were seated in Bill's "club room." "Confound those brats, they seem always to be putting a spike in our schemes!" muttered Jack, as he handed the paper to Bill for that worthy's perusal. "Which reminds me," he went on, "that we haven't attended to the case of that young Digby yet."
"Then we're just back where we started from," said Patty, cheerfully. "Yes; but, if you'll come to the musicale on Friday night, we can make great progress in a short time." "I told you I'd go, if you would persuade Marie to invite me." "Nonsense! I believe she HAS invited you. I believe you're Miss Curtiss. SHE has dark hair." "Why not that other singer, Miss Fairfield?"
"Hear'n anything uv them varmints what slipped their moorings on the train?" he asked. "We heard that they had gone West," rejoined Merritt, "but to just what part I don't know." "That thar Sam Reddin' boy clar'd himself uv all suspicion, did he?" went on the old man. "Yes, after he had admitted that Jack Curtiss and Bill Bender and himself stole our uniforms and robbed you "
"What's the trouble, captain?" asked the boy, noting a troubled inflection in the old man's voice. "My boat's gone!" was the startling reply. "Gone! Are you sure?" "No doubt about it. I left her tied ter the L wharf when I come up from the island, and now there ain't hide nor hair uv her there." "I'll bet anything that that fellow Curtiss is at the bottom of all this," cried Rob.
I think an enterprising tradesman got some of it, and a shroff gobbled the rest or else I spent it. CURTISS. Gaddy never had dealings with a shroff in his life. DOONE. Virtuous Gaddy! If I had three thousand a month, paid from England, I don't think I'd deal with a shroff either. I wonder whether matrimony would make it sweeter. CURTISS. Ask Cockley with his wife dying by inches!
In the meantime on a small island in the Upper Inlet a strange conference was taking place. Three youths whom our readers will recognize as Jack Curtiss, Bill Bender and Sam Redding; were in earnest consultation with the unkempt and unsavory individual whom we know as Hank Handcraft, the beach-comber.
"No; that is, I've never seen Miss Curtiss, but Marie says I met Miss Fairfield one day, for a moment." "Don't you remember her?" "Hardly; she seemed an insignificant little thing." "Pretty?" "How do I know! She was all wrapped up in motor togs, and acted like a gawky schoolgirl." "She did! Why, I know that Fairfield girl, and she isn't gawky a bit! She's a fascinating blonde."
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