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The Adventure Club Afloat

CHAPTER XII
10/18

Keep a watch for gasoline stations, fellows." They found the first one at Annisquam, near where the yacht club pier stuck out into the channel.

Steve sidled the _Adventurer_ up to a landing and, while Han held her with the hook, made inquiry of a grizzled man in faded blue jumpers.
"We're looking for a motor-boat called the _Follow Me_," he explained.
"Have you seen her ?" The man shook his head.

"What was she like ?" he asked.
Steve described her, aided by Harry Corwin, and the man pushed his old straw hat back, and rubbed his forehead reflectively.

Finally: "There was a launch answerin' to that description stopped here about"-- he gazed at the sun--"about two hours ago, I cal'ate.

She was black, but she didn't have no name on her so far as I could see.


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