Sir Hugh Harborough, rich and contented both in mind and body, was able to run Thalassa Towers in a manner that bid fair to make it one of the choicest country seats in Hampshire. He entertained lavishly, but of his numerous guests none were more welcome than his former comrades of the good ship Titania.
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Transcriber's Notes:
This book contains a number of misprints.
The following misprints have been corrected:
["It's like this," resumed Billy] —>
["It's like this," resumed Bobby]
There is no Billy in this book. This should be Bobby.
[messenger to Thelassa Towers] —>
[messenger to Thalassa Towers]
[Straus had tried] —>
[Strauss had tried]
[the compact air-craft begin to] —>
[the compact air-craft began to]
[the still tumultous water] —>
[the still tumultuous water]
Two illustrations were missing in the paper version used for producing this digitised text. These are: 'A SUBMARINE DUEL' and 'UNMASKED HE WAS NO LONGER AN AMIABLE SWEDE'. They are marked with "(missing from book)" in the Illustrations-list and at the place where the image would have been.
A few cases of punctuation errors were corrected, but are not mentioned here.