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queried Eph Somers . `` And I do n't believe anything can be , '' responded Jack Benson , hopefully . `` Mr. Farnum has looked over the man 's Navy discharge papers , and Mr. Farnum is n't an easy one to take in . '' Before five o'clock that afternoon Dunhaven lined the water front . That is to say , fully five hundred people of the little seaport town were on hand . The `` Pollard '' was a local enterprise . If the great United States Government expected to buy the boat , the people of the village wanted to be on hand and give a rousing send-off to a homemade craft that might yet be destined to become famous .