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“Blessed if I know,” replied Eph. “But that’s the way I size the fellow up. Now, take that time you were knocked senseless, back in Dunhaven. Who could have done that? The more I think about Sam Truax, the more I suspect him as the fellow who stretched you out.” “Again, what object could he have?” inquired Benson. “Blessed if I know. What object could anyone have in such a trick against you?
That officer came over in the cutter. “You’ve had treachery aboard, have you?” asked the lieutenant commander, as he climbed up over the side. “Rather. A new machinist, taken aboard just before we sailed from Dunhaven. The same fellow who must have played the trick on the ’Pollard’s’ engines yesterday,” Benson replied.
“I am the pilot, sir,” Jack replied. “Why, you’re a boy.” “Guilty,” Jack responded. “What does this fooling mean? You’re not old enough to hold a pilot’s license.” By this time Benson was on the deck, immediately under the bridge. A half dozen sailors, forward, were eyeing him curiously. “I have no license, sir,” Jack admitted. “Neither has anyone else at Dunhaven.
Farnum, of Dunhaven," began Jack, slowly. "Farnum? Oh, yes, the boat-builder. He must know that I don't want anything new in his line, and on any other business I imagine he would have sent someone er older." "Mr.
Captain Jack made the report to Commander Ennerling. It was in the small hours of the morning, and the submarine, having taken its prize in to Clyde City's harbor, was now on its way up the coast to tie up for the night at Dunhaven. They were running about six miles off the coast.
"If you could only have a little more practice," grumbled Williamson, good-humoredly, "this would soon be a safe town for a fellow to take a quiet smoke in." The "Hastings" was now in the water once more, as sound and staunch as on the first day she was launched. Then came a few days of idleness. Lieutenant Danvers left Dunhaven, intending apparently to return soon.
Jacob Farnum, in his own quiet way, was a bit more successful, however, and started for each of them a very substantial little bank account. One day, shortly after the return of the submarine boys to Dunhaven, while the hammers of the riveters were ringing out merrily on the hull of the second Pollard boat, Jacob Farnum sent for Captain Jack Benson and his friends.
Consequently, when the next day's papers appeared there was much in them about the wonderful work done by Captain Jack Benson in a "Pollard" submarine, but there was not even as much as a mention of the fact that any rival submarine boatyard existed in Dunhaven. "That is one long march stolen on the Melville foes," laughed Jacob Farnum to Benson.
"I didn't say anything was, did I?" queried Eph Somers. "And I don't believe anything can be," responded Jack Benson, hopefully. "Mr. Farnum has looked over the man's Navy discharge papers, and Mr. Farnum isn't an easy one to take in." Before five o'clock that afternoon Dunhaven lined the water front. That is to say, fully five hundred people of the little seaport town were on hand.
Such readers recall, as told in "The Submarine Boys on Duty," how Jack and Hal drifted into Dunhaven just at the right moment to fight for an opportunity to work themselves into the submarine boat building business.
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