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The Young Engineers on the Gulf

CHAPTER XVI
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"The other two bombs are about three feet lower, and it's going to be hard to work at the lower depth." "Be careful, won't you, sir ?" urged Conlon, in a somewhat awed voice.

"Mr.
Reade, we can't afford to lose you until this job is completed.

Men with all the nerve you show are scarce in the world." "I know where there are forty thousand men with at least as much nerve, many of them having several times as much as I," laughed Tom.
"Where on earth are they ?" demanded the Irishman.
"In the United States Navy.

If there were a battleship here the jackies would be fighting for the honor of going down after these bombs." Then Reade dropped out of sight, once more.

Nor was it long before he had the third and the fourth bombs aboard the boat.


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