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Farnum. “Doctor, can the young man be moved to his berth on the ’Farnum’?” “Safely enough,” nodded the medical man. They waited until the nurse arrived, when Jack was put to bed on the newer submarine craft. Jack slept through the night, moaning once in a while. Mr. Farnum and the Dunhaven doctor were aboard early to look at him. The surgeon from the “Hudson” also came over.
The others climbed the steps to the State Capitol grounds, continuing until they reached one of the principal streets of the little town. "Say, but this place must have gone to sleep before we got ashore," grumbled Eph. "Hanged if I don't think Dunhaven is a livelier little place!"
Grace Desmond, the despoiled heiress, who, as events proved, was left without a dollar of her own, came to Dunhaven to live with friends until she could plan what she was to do to earn her living. The three boys were walking, in uniform, with Mr. Farnum when that gentleman suddenly asked them, in low tones: "Do you see that young lady in white, walking with the two old people, coming toward us?"
That was the name of a fishing smack that put out from Dunhaven at regular intervals through the winter. She carried a Dunhaven captain and mate, and, altogether, fourteen men and boys. "When should she have been in!" queried Mr. Farnum. The crowd had halted, now, and all but their chosen speaker remained silent. "Yesterday morning, sir," replied the spokesman.
The news that the "Pollard" was going to attend the naval manoeuvres at Cape Adamson soon became noised about Dunhaven, for Mr. Farnum saw no reason for holding back the nature of his orders from Washington. It was not long before groups of people gathered on the shore, on either side of the boat yard, to gaze with increased interest at the grim, mysterious looking submarine.
"But ye ain't goin' t' take all that money with ye inter town?" protested Josh Owen. "Why not? It's mine," declared Jaggers, with singular ideas of ownership. "But I know ye, Dan Jaggers. If ye git inter Dunhaven with all that money ye won't be able to keep from showin' it.
"That's our gunboat out there, I think," went on Mr. Farnum, pointing to where a white masthead light and a red port light were visible, about a mile away. "Dunhaven must be on the map, all right, if a strange navigating officer knows how to come so straight to the place," laughed Jack Benson.
I don’t understand Mr. Benson’s conduct. I remember his mishap at Dunhaven. I remember the plight he got into at Annapolis; and now he and Mr. Hastings are found in this questionable shape. I am very much afraid these young men do not conduct themselves, on shore, in the careful manner that must be expected of civilian instructors to cadets.” Eph Somers felt something boiling up inside of him.
"That looks like a good deal for little Dunhaven," he thought to himself. "I wonder what's happening?" His horse and buggy were in the yard. The young owner presently went out and got into his vehicle, driving slowly along the street to the northward. About a third of a mile from his yard Mr. Farnum came to the spot where the lumber was being unloaded.
Readers of the first volume in this series, "The Submarine Boys on Duty," remember how Jack Benson and Hal Hastings strayed into the little seaport town of Dunhaven one hot summer day, and how they learned that it was here that the then unknown but much-talked about Pollard submarine was being built.
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