Hardley was a stranger,
he seemed to become more friendly as the days passed.
"Well, we start in the morning," said Tom to Ned one evening.
"I'm going over to tell Mary goodbye."
"Give her my regards," requested Ned, and Tom said he would.
CHAPTER X
STARTLING REVELATIONS
"OH, Tom! And so you are really ready to start on that perilous
trip!" exclaimed Mary Nestor, a little later that same evening,
when Tom called at Mary's house in his speedy electric runabout,
a car in which he had once made a sensational ride.
"Perilous? I don't know why you call it that!" exclaimed the
young inventor.
"Didn't you tell me you were stuck in a mud bank away down
under the river and had hard work to get loose?" asked the young
lady, as she made a place for Tom on the sofa beside her.
"Oh, that! Why, that wasn't anything!" he declared.
"It would have been if you hadn't come up."
"Ah, but we did come up, Mary."
"Suppose you get in a similar position when you find the wreck
of the Pandora? You won't get up so easily, will you?"
"No.
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