"
The shipbuilder also went ashore that evening, just to see whether he
could learn anything about M. Lemaire and Mlle. Nadiboff. Almost the
first person Farnum encountered was reporter Hennessy.
"Oh, your people are still here," answered Hennessy, in response to the
shipbuilder's question. "They're both keeping in the background,
though. It looks as though they feared to run away, and were waiting
to see whether the lightning were going to strike them. Now, that I've
told you so much, Mr. Farnum, can't you give me a little more of the
inside of this whole strange business?"
"If I did," smiled the shipbuilder, "you'd send it to your paper."
"Of course," admitted the reporter, honestly.
"I'll tell you the best I can do, Hennessy. You keep your eyes and ears
open for us, and I'll give you this news story before I give it to any
other newspaper man."
"You surely will?" demanded the newspaper eagerly.
"I will."
"Then I'm here to help you"
As the lieutenant commander had predicted, the ladies at the hotels were
in a flutter of excitement that evening. Every one who heard of the
projected trip on the submarine boat, it seemed, wanted to be invited.
By the time that Mr. Kimball's list was made up it consisted of three
men and nine women, these in addition to the lieutenant commander
himself and Mr Featherstone.
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