That's the vessel I'm
working on now," he added. "We're rebuilding the Advance, you
know, making her more up-to-date, and adding some new features,
including her name--M. N. 1."
"I suppose Mr. Damon's friend is getting anxious to make a
start, particularly as he has already invested several thousand
dollars in the project," went on the young inventor. "He formed a
company to pay half the expenses of the search, and they will
share in the~ treasure--if we find it," Tom said. "I wish Mr.
Damon, who holds most of the shares the promoter let out of his
own hands, had not gone into it, but, since he has, I'm going to
do the best I can for him."
"Then aren't you friendly with the other man?" asked Mary.
"I don't especially care for him," the young inventor admitted.
"He isn't just my style--too fond of himself, and all that. Still
I may be misjudging him. However, I'm in the game now, and I'm
going to stick. I'll have to be traveling on," he said. "Mr.
Damon and his friend are at my house, and they've been
telephoning all over to find me.
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