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Soon they were near the shore, and as they drew up close to the strange craft they found that she was floating on the rising tide, and was almost adrift. With difficulty the captain suppressed a chuckle of satisfaction, as he quickly made a rope fast to the motor-boat, gave it to Rod, seized once more his oars, and swung the tender about, and drew away from the shore.
"Straight she is," answered the lad, imitating a sailor's reply. "Oh, but this is great! It beats even my motor-boat!" "It goes considerably faster, at all events," remarked Mr. Sharp. "Keep her steady now, while I take a look at the engine. I want to be sure it doesn't run hot." He went aft, where all the machinery in the car was located, and Tom was left alone in the small pilot house.
The following morning the four Go Ahead boys set forth in the Black Growler on a voyage on the river. Fred was eager to show the wonders of the great St. Lawrence to his friends and equally desirous of trying out the motor-boat. In the time which was to intervene before the race was held he was eager to make himself familiar with every feature of the marvelous little craft.
Next day she went out of her way to be chilly to him. He did not woo her friendship. He had resigned from the Great Riley Show, and he was going going anywhere, so long as he kept going. He had been a jolly mechanic again, in denim overalls and jumper and a defiant black skull-cap with long, shiny vizor; the tender of the motor-boat fleet at an Ontario summer hotel.
Choate said he was sure it was devouring prey which it had just killed. He now asked Paul if he would like to try a cast. The boy assented eagerly. Bracing his feet in the bottom of the motor-boat he took good aim and let his harpoon fly. Paul had hardly hoped to hit the devil-fish.
Giving the tourniquet a few more twists to completely stop the flow of blood, Tom fastened the stick-lever in place by a bit of string. "That's that's better," murmured Mr. Duncan. "Now if you can go for a doctor " He had to pause for breath. "I'll not leave you here alone while I go for a doctor," declared Tom. "I have my motor-boat on the lake.
To this extraordinary speech, the girl merely replied with an inquiring look. "I wonder if you will permit me to be as kind to you as I can," he continued. "I know it sounds a bit blunt and vulgar to offer you money, but when one needs money " "I have sufficient for my present needs," she replied. "Mr. Daney has paid me for the loss of my motor-boat, you know.
"The hold-up men may be in that boat," remarked Orme. "Hardly." A laugh accompanied the answer. "Well, why not? She came north an hour or so ago and either was beached or lay to until just now." "You may be right." Then, before Orme knew what was happening, the young man opened the door and called into the station: "Hey, there! Your robber is escaping on that motor-boat out there." "What's that?"
But she watched the white man who was swimming for the shore. She was not afraid of him any more than the Indian chief was fearful of the other white man perched in the bow of the motor-boat. The swimmer reached the bank, caught hold of an overhanging bush, and dragged himself out of the river.
To the speaker's apparent disappointment, the citizen from Indiana did not accept the challenge for argument but instead observed pleasantly: "I'll wager you will outlive all us city people, Mr. Eldridge." "Course I will," was the old man's confident retort. "I'll be a-sailin' in my dory when the whole lot of you motor-boat folks are under the sod. You see if I ain't!
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