How they struggled to save a syndicate of American investors from being swindled out of millions of dollars was splendidly told in that fourth volume.
And now we find our young friends down at the gulf coast town of Blixton, Alabama.

Here they are engaged in a kind of engineering work wholly unlike any they had hitherto undertaken.

The owners of the Melliston Steamship Line, with a fleet of twenty-two freight steamships engaged in the West Indian and Central American trade, had looked in vain for suitable dock accommodations for their vessels, worth a total of more than six million dollars.

In their efforts to improve their service the Melliston owners had found at Blixton a harbor that would have suited them excellently, but for one objection.

The bay at Blixton was too open to shelter vessels from the severity of some of the winter gales.