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However, I'd gladly give twice that sum to get first to the lost galleon and her golden cargo." "It's well worth it," commented Sanborn. "Anyway, she is exactly the kind of air-ship we need for the recovery of the treasure," put in Malvoise. "Originally intended for Government use, she was turned back to her owner on account of a defect in the machinery which has since been rectified.
What was his amazement, then, about half an hour after the doctor had left him, with orders to sleep if he could, to hear in the next stateroom a voice, which he had no difficulty in recognizing as Luther Barr's, utter the following words: "Then we start for the Sargasso Sea as soon as possible. You have done very well, Sanborn, and you, Malvoise. You need not be afraid I shall not reward you."
To guard against any attack on him the men on the dirigible leaned over the rail and kept their rifles covering the boys and Ben. "Hum, you saved us the trouble of packing up the treasure, I see," said Malvoise, his eyes sparkling as they fell on the sacks of treasure. "If we'd only fixed you last night when you was in the air over the galleon we'd have done a good job," growled old Ben.
The rest of his features were covered by a motoring mask with large glass eye-holes that made him look not unlike a goggle-eyed frog. "Come here, Malvoise," croaked the newcomer, in a voice strangely like that of the creature he remotely resembled. The Frenchman instantly left his engine and hurried to the side of the automobile.
It was rapidly hauled up to the dirigible; the other treasure bags followed in the same manner. In half an hour the Golden Eagle was swept clean of the contents of the galleon's chests which the boys had loaded on her with such light hearts. "Now, then, I guess we are all ready for a start," said Malvoise, when the last of the sacks had been hauled into the dirigible's cabin.
And now Frank was back with the gasolene, his mouth scorched with the almost boiling coffee he had hastily poured into it. Malvoise had been scalded worse than the boy aviator, but he had manfully choked down the hot fluid and arrived at the side of the Buzzard at practically the same moment as Frank. Hurriedly the cap of the fuel tank was unscrewed and the contents of the gasolene can poured in.
"Make fast the ladder and we'll board you," was the next hail as a trap in the under side of the dirigible was opened and a long rope ladder came snaking down. Ben, although he would cheerfully have slashed it to bits with his sea knife, had no recourse but to make the end of the apparatus fast to the Golden Eagle's framework, and a few seconds later Malvoise came rapidly down it.
Barr could find it in his heart to help me I would gladly share the proceeds with him. It is the most needed improvement of the age for air-craft and " "Oh, you are like all crazy inventors," brutally blurted out Malvoise, "every idea that enters your cracked brain you think is the greatest improvement of the age, as you say.
"You see, I am well protected," grinned the Frenchman, as Ben started back. "Yes, I reckon we've got to give in with as good a grace as we can," grumbled Ben; "though I'd give all the treasure in them sacks to get my hands on you for just five minutes," he muttered to himself. "Let down a tackle there, you," shouted Malvoise to the crew of the dirigible, "and you, Sanborn, come down aboard here.
Just as the Frenchman was about to start his engine, preparatory to giving the word to let go, there was a shout from the crowd and cries of: "Let him through." "No, keep him out." "Who is he, anyhow?" "Aw, he's an old man; let him get through." "He's crazy." "No, he isn't." "I am not crazy," came in a shrill, cracked voice, "unless it is with my wrongs." Malvoise looked up quickly.
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