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Frank Merriwell's Cruise By: Burt L. Standish (1866-1945) |
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BY BURT L. STANDISH AUTHOR OF "Frank Merriwell's Schooldays," "Frank Merriwell's Chums,"
"Frank Merriwell's Foes," "Frank Merriwell's Trip West," etc.
PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER
604 8 SOUTH WASHINGTON SQUARE Copyright, 1898
By STREET & SMITH
Frank Merriwell's Cruise
FRANK MERRIWELL'S CRUISE. CHAPTER I. THE MEETING IN BOSTON.
"MR. JOHN DIAMOND, Lexington, Pa.: If you wish cruise in down East
waters, join me Monday next at American Hotel, Boston. Have
purchased yacht. Hodge and Browning will be in party. Great sport
anticipated. "MERRIWELL." Jack Diamond was reclining in a hammock suspended in the shade of an
artificial arbor when this message from Frank Merriwell was handed to
him by a boy. He tore open the envelope and read it, his eyes beginning
to sparkle and a flush coming to his handsome, aristocratic face. "Just like him!" exclaimed Jack. "Before leaving Fardale he aroused our
curiosity about that part of the country, and now he proposes taking us
down there in his own yacht. Will I go? Will I? I wouldn't miss it for
the world!" It had not taken him a minute to decide. A cab rattled up to the front of the American Hotel, on Hanover Street,
Boston, and stopped. The door flew open, and out stepped a smartly
dressed young man, wearing russet shoes, a light colored box coat and a
brown Alpine hat. He carried a handsome alligator skin traveling bag in
his hand. Paying cabbie without speaking a word, this youth turned and walked into
the hotel. As he entered, a colored boy hastened forward and relieved
him of his traveling bag. He stepped up to the clerk's desk and said: "I am Jack Diamond, of Virginia, and I wish to see Mr. Frank Merriwell,
who is stopping here." "Yes, sir," said the clerk, politely. "Mr. Merriwell left orders that
you be shown up immediately on your arrival. Twenty three, show Mr.
Diamond to Mr. Merriwell's rooms." "Right this way, sah," said the colored boy. Jack followed the uniformed bell boy, who paused at the elevator shaft
and pressed a button. In a moment the elevator came gliding noiselessly
down, the door slid open, a lady and a gentleman stepped out and Diamond
stepped in. "Third," said the bell boy, and then he turned and disappeared, while
the elevator man closed the door and sent the car gliding upward. He
stopped at the third floor, and, to Jack's surprise, the bell boy with
the grip was there, calmly awaiting his arrival. Jack followed him to the door of a room at the front of the house. As
the boy lifted his hand to knock at the door, there was a burst of
laughter within, plainly heard, as the transom was open, and Frank
Merriwell's voice cried: "Hans, if you could tell that story on the stage just as you told it
then you would make your fortune." "Vot vos der madder mit me?" exclaimed the voice of Hans Dunnerwust,
Frank's German friend. "Dot nefer vos a funny stories! You don'd seen
vot I larft ad! Dot peen a bathetic sdory. I oxbected you vould took
mein handkersheft oudt und cried id indo, but you sed roundt und laugh
ad dot bathetic sdory like I vos a lot of monkeys. You don't like dot as
vell as I might!" Then there was another burst of laughter, and the knock of the bell boy
was not heard. "Never mind," said Diamond, taking his traveling bag and giving the boy
a dime; "I'll go right in." He opened the door and stepped into the room. Hodge, Browning, Merriwell and Dunnerwust were there. Bart was tilted
back in a chair, with his feet on the table, while lazy Bruce was half
sitting and half reclining on a sofa. Frank sat astride a chair, looking
over the back of it at Hans, who had stood in the middle of the room as
he told his "bathetic sdory." "Hello, fellows!" cried the lad from Virginia, heartily. There was a shout of welcome. Frank sprang forward quickly and grasped
Diamond's hand. "Delighted, old man!" laughed Merry. "I was afraid you wouldn't come
till I received your telegram stating that you would be on hand... Continue reading book >>
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