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They were using all their breath working the pump, while Driggs carefully directed the bottom of the flexible tubing. "There!" declared Driggs at last. "Barring a little moisture, your canoe is as dry as ever it was, boys. I can't see a sign of a leak anywhere, either. But don't make a practice of tipping it over every day, for I can't afford to leave my work to help you out.
I wish you would write something about it. I can't think who would do this. There were no strangers that day at the school not that I noticed. None of our people would do it. What do you think about it, Driggs? Would the girl write it herself?" "No," replied the editor honestly, "I am quite sure Pearl did not do this." Suddenly Mr. Steadman thought of the telegram and the missing man.
At the time that the torpedo passed our boat I would like to know just who of the 'Thor's' complement were below." "Can you answer that, Mr. Driggs?" demanded Captain Magowan. Driggs was a bronzed, shrewd-looking man of forty, with a face that looked rather sound and wholesome. "Yes, sir," replied Driggs, promptly. "Mr. Radwin had volunteered to relieve the man on duty in the engine room. Mr.
"Well, you're coming over, aren't you?" "Ye-es, I'll come," Fred assented falteringly, for his guilty conscience made a coward of him. "You're a fine fellow, Mr. Driggs, and I'm glad to oblige anyone like you. I'll be right over." "Thanks, ever so much, for the compliment," drawled Driggs in his most genial tone.
We'll be having lots of fun in the war canoe after a few days." "How you going to get her fixed?" asked the other boy. "Hiram Driggs has taken the job, and you know what he can do with boats." "Whee! I'm glad on you're going to have the canoe fixed all right," nodded the other boy, and passed on. Forty-five minutes after Driggs' departure Jim Snowden came up with the truck.
Smoke soon began to pour out of the short funnel of the working engine on the boatyard scow. It was a clumsy-looking craft -a mere floating platform, with engine, propeller, tiller and a derrick arrangement, but it had done a lot of good work at and about the boatyard. "You want to get aboard the scow now, boys," called Mr. Driggs.
All I have to do is to say the word and they'll close you out. The Government will put a man in here who has sense enough to do as he is told." Mr. Driggs' faced showed more concern than he had exhibited before. There were certain bills he owed forgotten to be sure in normal times but now they came up blinking to the light, rudely disinterred by Mr. Steadman's hard words.
That's straight, isn't it?" "I -I don't understand," faltered Dick Prescott. "Then see if this will help you to understand," proposed Driggs, drawing a roll of bills from his pocket and laying down the money. Here you are, seventy dollars and sixty cents." "But we didn't propose to sell you any bark," Dick protested.
We shall be glad if you will permit us to invite you in couples." Despite the accident of the morning the invitation was greeted with enthusiasm. Hiram Driggs refused to accept any money for his trouble in raising the canoe. "I won't charge you anything, unless upsetting your craft becomes a troublesome habit," the boat builder declared. "Remember, I'm a big winner on our birch bark trade."
While they were below Jack had caught a glimpse of Radwin in the "Thor's" engine room. When the naval board and the others reached the deck Captain Magowan had Captain Driggs, of the "Thor," and the members of the boat's crew lined up together. "Have you any questions that you wish to ask, Mr. Benson?" the president of the board inquired. "Yes, sir.
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