The Motor Boat Club at the Golden Gate; or A Thrilling Capture in the Great Fog

An excerpt:. I feel it in my bones announced Joe Dawson quietly though positively.. That's no talk for an engineer jibed Tom Halstead. Tell me instead that you read it in your gauge.. Oh laugh if you want to nodded Dawson showing no offense. But you'll find that I'm right. You know I don't often make predictions.. Yet this time you feel that something disastrous is going to happen before this train rolls out on the mole at Oakland? In other words before we set foot in San Francisco?. No I don't say quite that objected Joe thoughtfully. There's a heap of the navigator about you Tom Halstead and you're pinning me down to the map and the chronometer. I won't predict quite as closely as that. But either before we reach 'Frisco or mighty soon[Pg 8] after we get there something is going to happen.. And it's going to be a disaster? questioned Tom closely.. For someone yes; and we're going to be in it at great risk.. Well it's a comfort to have it narrowed down even as closely as that smiled Tom Halstead. I hope it isn't going to be another earthquake though.. No agreed Joe thoughtfully.