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Blue Book v038 n05 [1924-03], 1924
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1The Amazing Dare
3Henry Rowland's stories, and the people in them, live—vividly, passionately, with spirit. And to a degree even greater than in the previous books which have won him fame, this splendid novel gives you vigorous and vital drama, consummately interesting.
5By HENRY C. ROWLAND
7THE first squall of the hard summer thunderstorm drove past and left Dare Colfax struck adrift.
9Her father, a wealthy amateur inventor, had launched recently a sort of seaplane surface glider that was known to the family as "the fool killer." The antics of this flimsy little craft and its poor stability had led Mr. Colfax vexedly to express the desire that somebody would take it out and sink it. Dare, without intending to gratify his thoughtless wish, had just done that thing.
11Mr. and Mrs. Colfax, and the two elder daughters Randon and Elsinore, had run over to the mainland in the small seagoing power-yacht that was a necessity to their off-shore island summer home on the coast of Maine. Dare, while bathing just after their departure, had seen the black thunderstorm making up behind the distant promontory known locally and aptly as Thunder Point. The machinist, Tim, had been trying vainly to get the fool-killer's motor properly tuned up when he was requisitioned for duty aboard the yacht.
13Mr. Colfax, sometimes fussy and impatient, was in a hurry to be off. He would not wait for Tim to get the freak speed-craft started again from its fit of sulks, nor for the machinist to take it in tow of his rowboat up to its moorings in the safe shelter of the cove. The approaching squall had not yet made itself manifest. Tim therefore threw out a light grapnel and rowed in to the landing, leaving the dangerous invention in an exposed position at the mouth of the little bight.
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