t you fellows up till the wee sma' hours, and I guess we've had enough for one night. We'll sleep ov

you feel about it, I don't hold you to the decision that you've made tonight. I take that just as the statement of your personal attitude toward the matter. If on thinking it over more carefully you should change your

n wasn't made at the minute you asked for it. It had been forming in our minds all the time we were going through those papers. Of course we'll have to talk with our fol

wood. Just at present he's in New York. He's no end of a good fellow, a

for him," replied Benton with a smile. "We're rathe

others seconded him enthusiastically. "He was with

t in touch with him as soon as you can. So long, fellows. See yo

by their interview with Benton. And when toward morning they dropped off into a troubled slumber, their dreams were a

night before. A strong appeal had been made to their imagin

en with considerable mental misgivings the boys opened up the subject to them,

h the perilous adventures they had previously undergone. Their folks had to admit that in these they had shown qualities of coolness and good judgment, in addition to courag

y was as ardent a "fan" as the son himself. They had a code of their own, but naturally even with that the talk had to be a guarded one, and dealt with the matter in a much more general way than would have been the case in a personal talk, whe

eloquence a chance and spread it all over my letter. Just wait till you see that letter. It's going to be a cuckoo. But I haven't any doubt

the matter before him, and enjoining him by all that

der. "Twenty-four hours! He'll telegraph an answer in

smiled Phil. "You've got the

gs, and in the evening, in accordance with arrangements made over the

the first greetings were over. "I can see

hoarse. We carried our point though, and as far as Dick and I are concerned the matter's a go. Tom's been talking over the radio and the thing

it's worth nothing at all, or it's worth every ounce of speed and energy w

drowning, sharks and things like that. Then too, they thought that it was in the nature of a wild goose chase. If the ship had been sunken recently, they'd ha

rmada that sank over three hundred years ago. What has happened once may happen again. As for the danger, of course there is

? A man may sail the seas for forty years without a scratch, and then come ho

g thing. But even suppose it doesn't go through. We'll have seen a new part of the worl

ucats and doubloons and louis d'or and all the rest of them from the bottom of the sea. It see

e millions of that though. Then there was the fleet of Spanish ships that sank in the harbor of Vigo, Spain, in 1702 carrying down $37,000,000. There's the San Pedro de Alcantara that sank in Margarita Channel near Caracas in 1812 with $32,000,000 in gold doubloons on board. You've read perhaps of the American ship Phantom that was wrecked in 1862 with

'll be less of it under water w

let's shift for a little while to another