Frank Allen and his motor boat; or, Racing to save a life

“THERE HE IS!” CRIED LANKY EXCITEDLY, POINTING TO THE MOTOR BOAT THAT LOOMED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THEM
OR Racing to Save a Life BY GRAHAM B. FORBES Author of “Frank Allen’s Schooldays,” “Frank Allen—Pitcher,” “Frank Allen at Rockspur Ranch,” etc.
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
1926
COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. MADE IN U. S. A.
FRANK ALLEN AND HIS MOTOR BOAT
TUNING THE ROCKET
“Cunningham really wants a race, does he? Well, I’m ready after to-day to give him a chance to beat the Rocket ; but, Lanky, he’ll have to handle the Speedaway better than he handles himself or he will find himself taking the rough water of this little boat mighty quickly.”
Frank Allen and Lanky Wallace were out on the Harrapin river giving the regular daily try-out to the Rocket . Lanky’s father, after their return from a recent trip to the West, had presented Frank with this neat, little, rakish-modeled motor boat for three reasons: first, because he liked the upstanding leader of the Columbia boys and felt that his own son, Clarence (though Lanky was the name known best) could be in no better company; second, because he was himself a lover of the great out-of-doors and felt that kinship to Frank which the outdoor life develops in men; and third, he felt that Frank had done him a great turn out at Gold Fork when he had so successfully outwitted those who had tried to rob him of the gold which was rightfully his.
“You know, sweet little Clarinda—” and Frank started “kidding” his pal.
“Listen, boy,” Lanky spoke up quickly, “the Harrapin’s wetter than usual to-day. One of us might get damp.”