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DICK HAMILTON'S FORTUNE
burning motor boat touched the craft in which the young women were their clothes would envelop them in flames.
"I must stop my boat!" thought Dick, desperately.
Then a brilliant idea came to him. He gave one look at the whirring fly-wheel of the motor. Then, seizing a heavy monkey wrench he opened the jaws and fastened it on a boat hook, so that it stood at right angles to it. Then he thrust the wrench right into the fly-wheel.
There was a grinding, crashing sound, and, a moment later, the whizzing wheel spokes had caught the wrench, and, with resistless force, had driven it through the bottom of the craft.
Dick had scuttled his own boat!
