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"Thank you," the listening boy heard Malvoise reply, in his smooth tones. "We have indeed done all that we could to hasten the scheme. It was lucky that we were able to purchase that dirigible of Constantio's at Boston, for if we had had to construct one of our own we should have been in a hard fix to beat the Boy Aviators in getting to the golden galleon.
They could now hear Malvoise's voice, directing the crew to strengthen this stay or lend a hand on that rudder brace. The ship was evidently passing through a crisis. It was hard for the boys to remain cooped up in their pen, but deliverance was near at hand. The door was suddenly flung open, and Malvoise himself stood framed in the square of light from the illuminated saloon behind him.
"Tell me first what it is you want to know," said he stoutly, "I cannot say whether I will tell you anything or not till I learn that." "Well, we won't occupy much of your valuable time then," put in Malvoise; "what we want to know is this: "How soon are those young whelps, the Boy Aviators, going to start for the Sargasso Sea?"
Now, if you had gone into the race to-day, with the direction in which the wind is blowing, you could have outgeneraled Malvoise by forcing him to make such a maneuver. I would give anything to see the man who robbed me of my designs robbed, in his turn, of the cup." The old man clenched his fists as he spoke and his eyes shone.
In his captor, as he stepped forward, Billy had no difficulty in recognizing Sanborn, the treacherous mechanic, and while he gazed in astonishment at the man there appeared from an inner room Luther Barr and Malvoise, the French aviator. "You'd better let me go at once," cried Billy angrily. "What do you want with me?" "Nothing very much," piped old Barr, "nothing very much, my dear lad.
At ten o'clock Malvoise stepped up to the three adventurers and said: "It is a rule on board that all lights shall be extinguished at this hour. If you are ready for bed I will show you to your sleeping place." He led the way to a small cabin fitted with two bunks and lounge. The boys wanted to ask a score of questions, but knew it would be useless, so remained silent.
The wind was freshening and this, while good for the boys, evidently meant trouble for the Buzzard; for the black craft, swiftly as she was going, was now giving occasional giddy careens. Malvoise apparently had a hard time to keep her on an even keel.
Come, let us get back to the city and " Her words were cut short by a shout from Malvoise. He started up his engine suddenly and before the old man could step back out of the way, the helpers, taken by surprise, let go of the rear structure to which they had been clinging. "Out of my way!" yelled Malvoise, as like some huge juggernaut the black aeroplane bore down on old Eben Joyce.
Nursemaids wheeling perambulators lolling over the handle, which they usually held with their left hands, the right holding a copy of Orange Blossoms or some halfpenny paper, and so interested in the story of the Marquis of Lymejuice a young man of noble presence and fabulous wealth, with a drooping golden moustache and very long legs, who, notwithstanding the diabolical machinations of Lady Sibyl Malvoise, who loves him as well as a woman with a name like that is capable of loving anyone, is determined to wed none other than the scullery-maid at the Village Inn inevitably bashed the perambulators into the ladders.
"As soon as everything is ready" was the reply of Malvoise, "we need one more man and I have advertised for him now let us drink to the treasure of the Buena Ventura and may we soon have our hands in the sack." There was a clinking of glasses as the toast was drunk, and then the trio conversed in lower tones.
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