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Updated: May 11, 2025
"All I wanted to make plain was that I couldn't pass him on to our precious old boat without Mr. Farnum's order." Truax plodded slowly along behind the submarine boys, a cunning look in the man's eyes as he stared after Jack Benson. "You're a slick young man, or else a wise one," muttered Truax. "But I think I'm smart enough to take it out of you!" Nor did Sam Truax go to the hotel.
The next morning that capitalist called at Jacob Farnum's office. "Farnum," he announced, "I've decided that, in order to heal all breaches, and also to make what is very likely to be a good investment for myself, I'll be ready to put in all the money desired with you, and on what I think will be your own terms."
My husband's home is in England," Virgie answered, flushing vividly. A blank look came over Mrs. Farnum's face, then she assumed a grieved expression. "In England! and you never told us that you were our countrywoman, Mrs. Heath!" she said, reproachfully. "I am not. I am a native of California," Virgie explained with some confusion; but I seldom speak of myself to strangers."
He concerned himself principally with the compass, his only other task being to keep the course by the "Hudson's" lights, for the parent boat supplied in its own conduct all the navigation orders beyond the general course. The "Farnum's" searchlight was not used, the gunboat picking up all the coast-marks as they neared land.
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