ess
was incorporated, Mr. Farnum and Mr. Pollard retaining control. The
owners praised highly the three boys for the way they had handled the
"Pollard" on its trial trip, saying that this was a factor in the Navy's
acceptance of the submarine. They also gave the three boys one
thousand dollars each and ten shares apiece in the new corporation.

George Melville had spent more than thirty thousand dollars in trying to
get hold of Mr. Farnum's business. This, of course, was a total loss.
Soon after this, in trying to get control of a railroad by his
underhand methods, he lost all of his fortune and had to accept a small
clerkship in order to make a living. Don, at the same time, became
steward on the yacht of one of his father's old-time acquaintances.

Jacob Farnum had been in Washington, a fact his wife had known after the
first day of his absence. He had been secretive about the matter, as he
wished if possible to keep George Melville in ignorance of his
whereabouts until his business was settled.

Not even with the transfer of the "Pollard" to the Government did the
life of the submarine boys aboard their pet boat cease. Some further
adventures of these boys are told of in a volume entitled: "_The
Submarine Boys and the Middies; or, The Prize Detail at Annapolis_."

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