{"product_id":"2940015043266","title":"THE MOTOR BOAT CLUB AT NANTUCKET or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I—THE PAIR IN THE SEAT AHEAD\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II—BOUNCER WAKES UP\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III—THE LUCKIEST BOY IN THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV—SIGHTING THE “PIRATE”\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V—A JOKE ON THE ENEMY\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI—TOM HAS A BAD QUARTER OF AN HOUR\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII—“THE QUICKEST WAY OF WALKING THE PLANK”\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII—TOM DISCOVERS THE HEIR\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX—TED HURLS A THUNDERBOLT\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X—OVERHAULING THE MYSTERY\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI—WHERE THE WATER TRAIL ENDED\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII—JOB HAS HIS COURAGE TESTED\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII—A CAPTURE IN RECORD TIME\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV—HEADED FOR THE SUNKEN REEF\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV—IN THE TEETH OF DEATH\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI—FOLLOWING UP THE CLUE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII—JOE PLAYS JUSTICE A SCURVY TRICK\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII—THE MESSAGE UNDER THE ROCK\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX—THE SIGHT BEHIND THE ATTIC LIGHT\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX—BLIND MAN’S BUFF IN FEARFUL EARNEST\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXI—THE LAST DASH TO WIN\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXII—JED RUNS A NAVAL BOMBARDMENT\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIII—SPYING ON THE FILIBUSTERS\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIV—CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the beginning of:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I—THE PAIR IN THE SEAT AHEAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Is the ‘Meteor’ a fast boat?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Very fast, indeed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“But can she beat anything along this coast? That’s what I want to know.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Judge for yourself. On her trial trip she made within a small fraction of twenty-eight miles an hour.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whew! That’s tremendous speed, even for a fast and costly boat such as the rich build to-day. But how long has she been in the water?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Since last March.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“She may have fouled a good deal since then, or her machinery may be a good deal below the mark by this time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Humph! For that matter, something could be made to happen to the boat, I suppose.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the two men carrying on this conversation in a day-coach seat on a railway train, one was five-foot-seven, florid and somewhat stout, with a bull neck and keen, twinkling eyes. His whole appearance hinted that he had spent most of his forty years of life on the open sea. The other man, who was short, slim and swarthy, with narrow, piercing black eyes, might have been a few years older. His every motion betokened great activity. One might have guessed him to be a Spaniard. His general attire, though it was somewhat careless, would place him in the business-man class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the first mention of the name “Meteor” two American boys, seated immediately behind the men, started slightly and immediately were all attention. Each boy was about sixteen years of age. Tom Halstead was fair, brown-haired and blue-eyed with a naturally merry look. Joe Dawson was darker, somewhat more reserved in manner and was Tom’s fast chum and great admirer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYes; readers of the preceding volume in this series will recognize Tom and Joe at once as the young Americans who became the original members of the Motor Boat Club of the Kennebec. It was they who put Broker Prescott’s fast motor boat, the “Sunbeam,” once more in commission; they who went through some most lively adventures along the coast near the mouth of the Kennebec and who rendered tremendously important services to Revenue Officer Evans, a cousin of the broker, in penetrating the secret of Smugglers’ Island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow these same two members of the Motor Boat Club were traveling on business that they believed to be wholly commonplace. They were headed for the island of Nantucket, south of Cape Cod. The experiences ahead of them, they imagined, were to be of the most ordinary kind. They had no glimpse, as yet, of the new excitements that Fate had in store for them. They had no hint of the startling adventures into which they were soon to be plunged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that mention of the name “Meteor” had aroused their instant attention. That was the name of the motor boat that they were to join and take charge of at Wood’s Hole. The craft was the property of Mr. Horace Dunstan, one of the wealthy residents of the island of Nantucket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ordinary boy might not have heard the low-toned conversation of the pair in the seat ahead. But Tom and Joe, attuned to the life of the sea and with ears trained to note the slightest irregularity of the sound of machinery, possessed acute hearing indeed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the first words of that conversation between the unknown pair Tom gave Joe a slight nudge in the side. Dawson’s eyes promptly closed, his lips parting, his head sinking slightly forward. 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