The boys wanted
to get an education, and, investing their share from the sale of
the diamonds, they took up a course at the Universal Electrical
and Chemical College. Each had an ambition to become as great an
inventor as was Professor Henderson, with whom they continued to
live in a small city on the Maine coast. Washington White and
Andy Sudds also dwelt with the professor, Andy going off on
occasional hunting trips, and Washington acting as a sort of body
servant to Mr. Henderson.
Jack and Mark had completed one term at the college, and were in
the midst of the second when this story opens.
They had not lost their love for making queer voyages, and one of
their greatest desires was to help the professor turn out a craft
even more wonderful than the Electric Monarch, the Porpoise or
the Flying Mermaid. It was in this connection that Jack was
experimenting on the new gas, when the slight accident happened.
"Are you going to try that again?" asked Mark, as he and his chum
walked along to their geometry class.
"Sure," replied Jack. "I want that to succeed.
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