Doubtless the
gang-members were warned in time, and so did not attempt to commit
wholesale suicide by running against a citizens' posse.
Mr. Bascomb is still president of the Melliston Company, and he is holding
up his head. No further fear of blackmailers oppresses him.
Dick Prescott was able to remain several days longer---long enough, in
fact, to see the more substantial structure of the million-dollar
breakwater begin to go up just inside the completed retaining wall.
Then Lieutenant Dick was obliged to resume his journey on to Fort Clowdry,
Colorado. What happened to Prescott, after joining the army as an officer,
is told in "_Uncle Sam's Boys on Field Duty_," the second volume in the
"_Boys of the Army Series_."
Though Harry Hazelton was disappointed in missing some of the excitement at
Blixton, he had no occasion to complain in that respect when he and Tom
entered upon the next great undertaking of the young engineer pair.
After the disappearance of the big black from the scene there was no
further trouble at the breakwater.
Blixton is now an important though artificial harbor. With the completion
of the breakwater, and the building of a lighthouse, the next work
undertaken was the building of stone docks at which the steamships of the
Melliston Line now dock.
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