" As if sensing that he was venturing on dangerous ground,
he stopped abruptly. "So you build boats, do you?" he commented to
change the subject.
Richard Galbraith nodded.
"That's my calling," he assented. "And since it is, I am in a position
to handle things that have to do with boats of all kinds. That is why
your motor-boat idea has interested me so deeply. I saw its
possibilities from the moment I first laid eyes on it, and I wish to
congratulate you on having given the public such a useful invention."
"It ain't got far toward the public," objected Willie, with a
deprecating shrug of his shoulders.
"But it is going to," Mr. Galbraith declared with promptness. "Bob,
Mr. Snelling and I have taken matters into our own hands and have
ventured to have an application for a patent prepared--description,
claims and all; and after you have sworn to the affidavit and affixed
your signature, we will send it off to Washington, where I haven't a
doubt it will be granted. I thought this would save you the bother of
attending to it yourself.
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