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He tried something once and didn't make it work." "Yes, and he got a sore foot, too! He's out here for more." Answering the hail from the Fortuna, Madero, for it was he, asked to be taken aboard. He seemed weak and unable to help himself. When his condition became apparent the boys were all sympathy. They quickly helped him over the rail and then took his boat in tow.
To say truth, he was in the wavering condition so finely described by Claudian: labefacta cadelat Religio, causaeque viam non sponte sequebar Alterius; vacua quae currere semina motu Affirmat; magnumque novas fer inane figures Fortuna, non arte, regi; quae numina sensu Ambiguo, vel nulla futat, vel nescia nostri.
"Ah," observed Jack stooping over a prostrate figure near the foot of the ladder leading to the deck of the Fortuna, "he sleeps." "What's the trouble with the watchman, if it is he?" asked Tom. "It is the watchman," Jack answered with a tenseness of expression, "and he's struck with bottle paralysis. I wonder if the Fortuna is all right, or has that Wyckoff had the run of things a while."
Busily the boys went at their tasks and soon the Fortuna was once more "Ship shape and Bristol Fashion," as Jack loved to say. "What do you suppose Wyckoff meant when he said our pals are out of the way and we are next?" questioned Frank, a trifle uneasily, as his mind traveled back to the last time he had seen Charley and his launch the "Spray." "Do you suppose he meant "
Now if Fortuna be thought of in this latter way, it is a very easy matter to connect her with Servius Tullius, for the legendary accounts of Servius's career picture him as a very child of "fortune," raised from the lowest estate to the highest power, the little slave boy who became king.
They had established the mythical connection of Rome with Troy and with the great cycle of Greek legend, and had originated the idea of making Rome itself that Fortuna Urbis which later stood in the form of a golden statue in the imperial bedchamber the central interest, one might almost say the central figure, of the story.
As they pulled away from the Fortuna, Harry cautioned Tom to watch the plug in the after cabin and keep dry. As the boat approached the shore the stranger on the beach frantically made signals indicating that he wished them to return to the Fortuna at once. Putting his fingers to his lips he glanced about as if in alarm and then put out his hand in a gesture of caution.
Here's some more of this mystery for us." "What do you mean, mystery?" queried Tom, scoffingly. "Just listen to this! Here's a newspaper clipping evidently from a Chicago paper which tells about our fitting out the Fortuna for the cruise to the Gulf of Mexico and also hazards the guess that we are young and adventurous spirits evidently seeking the buried treasure on the Gulf Coast."
It would be doubly desirable, for I have wished for a long time to test the internal use of phosphorus yes, gentlemen," repeated the doctor, on hearing a kind of murmur of curiosity among his auditory, "yes, gentlemen, phosphorus; it is a very curious experiment which I wish to make it is bold! but audaces fortuna juvant and the occasion will be excellent.
Come to think of it, I'm going to fire that Scotchman in the Fortuna and give All Hands And Feet his berth. He has earned it." He adjusted his spectacles and read: Hoquiam, Washington, June 27, 19 . Blue Star Navigation Company, 258 California St., San Francisco. Arrived this morning, seventy-nine days from bar to bar, all hands well, including your special messenger.
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