"I owe this whole business to you, Rush, and you bet I won't forget it!"
CHAPTER XV
AT THE WHEEL
"ISN'T she a beauty!" said Steve admiringly, as, with Jarvis and Captain Simms, he stood on the dock at the shipyards in Detroit, gazing up at the new steamer, the finest ship of her kind plying the lakes.
"She is," agreed the master proudly, "but I'm not forgetting that I might not have had her if it hadn't been for you. Let's go aboard and look her over."
All hands climbed the ladder to the deck. Besides the usual two deck-houses, fore and aft, there was another house just aft of the forward house. This was the guest or passenger dining room where the guests of the line would be served with their meals. After admiring this the men went forward. The captain's quarters were handsomer than anything the men ever had seen before.
"The only trouble with this outfit up here is that it's bigger and I'll be lonesome up here," laughed the captain.
"We'll come up and visit you," returned Jarvis.