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Updated: June 17, 2025
This was an unusual experience for him, and his heart glowed with pride. He did not mind telling them what he had done, and how the two men had helped him to hoist the sail. "Who were they?" his mother asked. "Oh, just two chaps who happened along in a motor-boat. Guess they were mighty glad to find shelter from the storm."
Swordsley, no doubt, was saying to himself: "If my good parishioner here can afford to buy a motor-boat, in addition to all the other expenditures which an establishment like this must entail, I certainly need not scruple to appeal to him again for a contribution for our Galahad Club."
The long finger of light had now come to rest. In its pathway I saw a lightless motor-boat bobbing up and down, crowding on all speed, yet followed relentlessly by the accusing finger. The river front was now alive with shouting. Suddenly the Mohican shot out from behind the pier where she had been hidden. In spite of Lang's expertness it was an unequal race.
Back to the shack they went, and Freddie was looking about for some matches in the old cabin when Flossie suddenly called out: "Hark! I hear something!" Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey and the friends who had gone with them in Captain Craig's motor-boat to search for the runaway balloon, waited anxiously after they had run on the rocks for what was to happen next. "Is there any danger?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey.
"They have got quite a good many people on board," suggested George as he noticed a group of boys and girls near the rail, who apparently were as deeply interested in the motor-boat as the Go Ahead boys were in the big, black yacht. "Let's have a race with her," suggested George. "Start her up, Fred, and see if the yacht will try to keep up with us."
Timing our shouts together, the coxswain and I, we sent up a tremendous hail to the lowest of the piers. Again and again we startled the night, until at last we heard an answering hallo. In a few minutes a motor-boat bore down upon us. It was the British Navy in the shape of an engineer lieutenant commander.
Sam, however, had fallen once more into one of his periods of silence and made no comment on the remarks of the Go Ahead boys. "I'm going over to the Bay now," said Sam when the boys after breakfast approached the dock. "Are you going in the motor-boat?" inquired Fred. "Yes, sir." "How long will you be there?" "I don't know. Probably an hour." "Then we'll go over with you," answered Fred.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Nayland Smith's Browning spat death across the cave. Then followed the report of Barton's pistol; then those of mine and Kennedy's. A small motor-boat was creeping cautiously out under a low, natural archway which evidently gave access to the sea! Since the tide was incoming, a few minutes more of delay had rendered the passage of the cavern impossible....
Bluewater Bill dived into the cabin for the lantern, but the furious wind snuffed out the light in a second. And all the time the big steamer was driving closer and closer straight for the helpless motor-boat. "The signal gun," suddenly shouted Frank. This was a small saluting cannon fixed to the after end of the cabin roof.
She was in Alexandria. Not having sufficient money to pay his train fare, he requisitioned a motor-bicycle and sped on to Alexandria. From his youthful eyes there welled tears when he was informed that his ship was weighing anchor. Nothing daunted, however, he commandeered a fast motor-boat, and swept out after the warship, which he caught on the go.
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