The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket: or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir

Few words are needed to complete this presentnarrative of the doings of the Motor BoatClub boys.

Master Ted Dunstan, of course, entered inupon the first portion of his great inheritance, and is now earnestly proceeding to fit himself,in every way possible, for a cadetship at WestPoint, preparatory to becoming an officer in theArmy. In time he will unquestionably qualifyto inherit the great fortune that was bequeathedhim under such unusual conditions. It wasafterwards proven, and most satisfactorily, thatTed’s Uncle Gregory had no part in the plotagainst the boy. That conspiracy was hatchedin the fertile brain of Don Emilio Alvarez.Further, it may be stated that Gregory Dunstanhas sold his plantation in Honduras, andthat he is never likely to become again mixedup in a revolution in Honduras, for he has becomeagain a resident of Massachusetts. Alvarez, probably, was all along the cause ofGregory Dunstan’s mixing in the politics ofHonduras, and Don Emilio had hoped, by throwingthe great Dunstan fortune to Uncle Gregory,to put it where the Honduran politicians coulddraw upon it.

Farmer Sanderson did not leave on the tug, but was arrested at his own home. He wasafterwards sentenced, in a United States court,to serve one year in prison for aiding the filibusters.Captain Jonas French and Alvarezwere each sentenced to serve two years, whilethe other Hondurans received a year apiece.The mate and crew of the tug were dischargedfrom custody, as it was considered they had notbeen plotters, but had merely signed for a cruise,as they might have done aboard any other vessel.Gambon escaped, but was lately injured in arailway wreck, and is now crippled for life.

Horace Dunstan, as he promised, did notprosecute through the State courts. He waswell pleased at the happy ending of the wholeaffair, and considered that Alvarez and theothers had been sufficiently punished. Pedro,a Jamaica negro who had afterwards gone toHonduras to live, and thus spoke both English, and Spanish, was one of the Hondurans to receivea year’s sentence, as his connection withthe Alvarez crowd was fully established.

The yellow launch that Tom was instrumentalin seizing was afterwards claimed by, and surrenderedto, a boat-owner up the coast who hadrented the boat to Captain Jonas French.

Tom and Joe? They are still the leadingmembers of the Motor Boat Club. Jed was alsoadmitted, and is one of the most expert of theyoung members.

Horace Dunstan rewarded everyone who hadanything to do with the liberation and protectionof his son. Tom, Joe and Jed were alloffered much larger rewards than any one ofthem could be induced to accept. Yet each ofthe boys, in the end, accepted a sum that providednot only a good time at once, but also foreach a tidy little reserve fund in bank.

Here we will take leave of the three boys amidNantucket surroundings. They will be heardfrom again, however, at a later date, in a furthervolume, filled with their exciting adventures, under the title: “The Motor Boat ClubOff Long Island; Or, A Daring Marine Gameat Racing Speed.”

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