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After dinner was over the midshipman went up to Mr. Peters, who was now third lieutenant, and saluted. “What is it?” the lieutenant asked. “Well, sir, it is an idea of Gilmore’s. It may not be worth anything at all, but it certainly seemed to me that there was something in it.” “His ideas are generally worth something. What is it?” The midshipman explained Will’s plan.
Gilmore’s direction through all the principal towns of New England, Madam Urso left his company and spent the summer months in traveling in her private carriage with a small party of her own, and giving occasional concerts by the way. She reached New York late in the fall and at once organized a new company, and visited Canada.
And who is the other one?” “He is Gilmore’s special chum, sir. He has a brute of an uncle who is always knocking him about, and he wants to go to sea with his friend.” “Well, they are two likely youngsters. The second is more heavily built than the other, but there is no doubt as to which is the more intelligent.
“Upon my word,” one of the seniors said, “I think there is something in Gilmore’s idea. Of course they would have to be very shallow, and one would have to choose a night when there was just enough breeze to take them quietly along. At any rate I will run the risk of being snubbed, and will mention it to one of the lieutenants. ’Pon my word, the more I think of it the more feasible does it seem.”
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