CHAPTER V

A Startling Offer Don fairly leaped from his chair in wild excitement. “Do you mean it, Uncle Frank?” he cried, as his glance darted from one to the other of the two smiling faces. “You aren’t fooling?” “Not a bit of it,” replied his uncle. “I wouldn’t raise your hopes only to dash them. Captain Hargot tells me that there’s a vacancy in his list. One of the men who was going with him has fallen sick. I knew how badly you wanted to go, and I suggested you. He was a little doubtful at first, thought you were too youn…