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'He has, dear—aren't we all at home again?'
And then, somehow, all settled quietly into their old places, only that
there was a tendency on the part of everyone to follow Snap's every action
with friendly eyes, anxious to discover something which they could do for
their hero.
As for Snap, he was not such a prig as to think for a moment that this
great change, or any of it, was his doing. 'Deuced lucky' was what he called
it—in his own heart he had a more reverent way of speaking of it.
This November morning was just two years from the day when he and
Towzer had stood watching the Eastern train disappear along the line,
carrying Frank and the old German's papers with it. In Berlin Frank had
found that the professor's name was as well known as the Kaiser's; more,
that his name was known as well in London or Paris as in Berlin. Von
Bulberg, the professor's friend, had received Frank with open arms, had
gathered the scientists of the great city together to fête him and listen to his
story, had helped him to find an honest and expert lawyer, and, between
them, they had taken out the patents and executed every wish expressed in
that last will and testament.
As for the 'few little houses at Potsdam,' the worthy aeronaut evidently
set small store by the ordinary things of this earth. When a young man he
had come into a very considerable property, of which he had spent very
little, and ever since his inventions had been adding one small fortune to
another, all of which had been invested in house property at Potsdam. The
result was that when Frank's lawyer laid the accounts before him he found
that an income of nearly 10,000l. a year would fall to the share of himself
and his friends, as representing 'the few little houses at Potsdam.'
As the professor had no kith or kin, the boys had no scruple in taking the
good things Providence had sent them, but I fancy that a very considerable
portion of their share of the royalties on the professor's two patents finds its
way to such institutions as Dr. Barnardo's Home for Boys and the like.
With their portion of the money Frank and Towzer had bought back the
old home, investing all they had to spare in Snap's ranche, for neither
persuasion nor anything else could tear him away from Dick and the Bull
Pine Range, upon which these two partners had now got together as fine a
herd as you will see in the North-west. After much correspondence and two
years of waiting his old friends had at last induced him to come home for a
winter's hunting.
Out West, Dick was in command, and under him was as smart a lot of
riders as even he could desire. The cattle did well on the Bull Pine Range,
being well sheltered among the bluffs round the Lone Mountain, so that
during the winter there was no reason why 'the boss' should not come over
to the old country for a spin with the hounds if he could afford it. And Snap
could afford that, and a good deal more. Ten per cent. for your money
would be marvellously good interest in any business in England; with luck,
Dick and Snap did not think much of twice that at Bull Pine.
'Yes, Lord W. has approved it, and what he approves is bound to "go"
nowadays,' replied Snap. 'I should think they would be very useful for
reconnoitring an enemy's position, for surveying the country generally, and
taking messages from point to point.'
'That's all very well, but what are the other fellows going to do all the
time? wouldn't they put a bullet into your great gas-bag and bring it down
with a run?' demanded the Admiral.
'I think not, sir,' said Frank; 'we had a hole or two in ours, and she didn't
come down as fast as we wanted her to always.'
'Besides, you forget, uncle,' added Towzer, 'that she would be a little
"taller" even than the tallest rocketer, and you know they are too tall even
for you sometimes.'
'Well, you may be right, Snap,' the Admiral allowed, taking no notice of
Towzer's insinuations, 'but I'm glad that I shall never be Admiral of a fleet
of those crafts.'
'You agree with Dick, sir,' said Snap; '"give me a cayuse," he says, "as'll
buck itself out of its girths, as'll buck itself out of its skin, if you like, but no
more of them bally balloons for me!"'
'Ah, well! here are our cayuses, Snap, and it is about time that we got
into the saddle. It is a good four miles to the Lawn,' remarked Frank; while
Towzer, always intent on creature comforts, was anxious to know what
Snap would have in his flask.
'No spirits, thank you, old chap,' was the answer. 'I've brought a large
supply of good ones of my own. Neither, whisky nor "tip" could compare to
the spirits I am in this morning.'
Five minutes later they were in their saddles, the Winthrops in pink,
dressed with all that scrupulous neatness which is essential for a soldier or a
fox-hunter, and which comes amiss to no one. Snap was more quietly
attired, but his was an easy figure for the tailor to fit, and when he rode up
with his friends, the connoisseurs of men and of horses, who were chatting
and smoking at the meet, decided with one consent that, though there might
be a bow where there ought to have been a strap, a button too many or too
few, yet, allowing for the fact that he was 'only a colonist,' that young Hales
looked a good sort, and 'a workman, sir, all over.'
A 'workman all over.' It's hunting slang, I know, but it is the keynote of
the English character still, thank goodness. If you can work and will work,
and that work is honest and true, men will respect you, women admire you,
and even the most exacting of relations forgive you what one may call vice,
another mischief, an indulgent old sailor 'go,' or a Nor'-West cowboy, like
Dick, 'sand.'
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