CHAPTER I
GETTING A MOTOR BOAT
"If you are going with the boys on the river, Jack, you will have to get a motor-boat. Won't you let me buy you one?"
"No, not a bit of it, Dick."
"But you want one?"
"Certainly, and I am going to have one."
"But motor-boats cost money, Jack. Why, mine cost me——-"
"Never mind what it cost, Dick. You spend a lot more money thanI can afford to spend, and you have a gilt-edged affair, of course.I...
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