"I'm ready to take the chance," said he.
"Besides," Bob went on, "Mr. Galbraith has given you something of a
character too. He has frightened me clean out of my life with his
tales of your--"
"Pooh! Nonsense!" broke in Mr. Snelling deprecatingly. "I like my
job, that's all; and Mr. Galbraith and I happen to hit it off."
Nevertheless Bob could see that he was pleased by the flattery.
It was on his tongue's end to voice his thought and add that the man
who could not get on with a person of Mr. Snelling's adroitness and
diplomacy would be hard to please; but although he did not utter the
words he felt them to be true.
"Now," began the New Yorker with a swift change of subject, "let us get
down to business. How are we going to work this thing? You must coach
me. I gather I am being employed on quite a delicate mission. My
instructions are to come in here as a friend of yours and the
Galbraiths, and without raising the suspicion that I have much of any
knowledge about boats, I am to help get this invention into workable
shape.
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