human
Ten days later the newspapers reported that a large yacht had gone ashore on one of the Ten Thousand Islands on the west coast of the Everglades, and the men we sent down there to investigate discovered that the derelict was the Mist,--the same yacht that Bellman had bought. What was most remarkable, however, was that the boat seemed to have been deliberately wrecked, for everything had been taken off her except her coal and ballast and all the boats were gone. There was no indication that she had been abandoned in a hurry and the reef on which she lay was such an obvious one that even at high water it was clearly visible. Now that the Mist's boats went into the Everglades we are reasonably sure. If they had gone anywhere else we should have got some trace of them by this time, but from that day to this we have not had a word or sign concerning them.
gpt
We have heard, however, that the navy of the power we suspect has been conducting experiments with a new explosive and we have also learned that this same explosive is undoubtedly Chapinite. We have looked up Bellman's record and find that while he was stopping at the Willard he received several letters from the government in question and that he paid twenty thousand dollars for the Mist. Now a man isn't going to pay that much out for a boat and wreck her unless he does it purposely. Bellman didn't have that much money anyhow. There is only one conclusion, Bellman was simply the agent for some one else and that some one has got a lot of money to spend to secure the most powerful explosive ever discovered.
human
There you have the case in a nutshell,
gpt
There is only one thing that is not clear to me, objected Frank.
human
Why should they make the stuff in the Everglades. Why not manufacture it out and out in the country you have mentioned?
gpt
Such a course would have been too full of risks, replied the secretary,
human
I see, nodded Frank. He pulled out his watch. It was twelve o'clock.
gpt
There is a train to New York at one o'clock,
human
Won't you stop and have lunch with me?
gpt
No, thank you, was the boys' reply;