“Very well.  I will write you a check at once.  The banks are closed for the day now, but I will deposit the money the first thing in the morning.  Until I do that, I have not enough in bank to cover this,” and he looked at the paper.  “By the way,” and he turned to his employees and to the inventor, ignoring the two outsiders, “the Navy Department has accepted the ‘Pollard.’  I’ve sold her for one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.  Have you any more assigned claims against me, Mr. Melville?” he drawled, again facing the capitalist.

“No,” snapped the man.  He had paid a thousand dollar bonus to get the one he had; and was feeling sick over the outcome.

Just then the door opened and the stenographer showed Broughton Emerson into the room.

“I see you answered my telegram in person, Mr. Emerson,” said Farnum, rising from the chair he had taken and shaking hands.

“Yes, I came in person, and quite prepared to furnish the capital you need after the preliminaries are arranged.”

George Melville rose and after a brief nod of farewell made for the door, followed by his lawyer.  Jack opened the door quietly, then shut it just as softly.

Broughton Emerson invested heavily in Mr. Farnum’s yard and the business 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.”