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Rivermouth was fast becoming a base for patrol boats and submarines, it seemed, although New London and Groton, across the harbor from New London, were really the headquarters for all such craft along the North Atlantic seaboard. "Maybe we can spy the Three Eights," Torry said, referring to the submarine chaser in which they had pursued the Sarah Coville a few days before. "Mr.
The petty officer was still unconscious. They picked him up to carry him below. Then the whole crowd began to cheer, and the officers did not forbid it. Even Lieutenant Perkins wrung Phil Morgan's hand as he stood abashed in the center of the congratulatory group on the quarter deck. "I'd be proud to have you as one of my own crew, Morgan," said the commander of the submarine chaser.
They used words like concerts, bar hop, chaser, dive, dude, hot babe, married, pregnant, job security, tax break, investment, global economy, third world, cold war, Reagan, Saturday Night Live, and Letterman. Their language felt alien to me. They used "party" as a verb, not as a noun.
There seemed to be, however, no prospect of the sea's abating; and the commander of the chaser had a considerable distance to go before morning, so he urged the engineer to increase rather than diminish the speed. With no regard to the comfort of her crew, the craft plowed along on her way to the port where the Kennebunk awaited them. Naval vessels cannot wait on weather signals.
The captain shrugged his shoulders, then glowered at Ralph, who was relating his adventures to several men about the cook's galley. "When John Bull or Uncle Sam are as close as that fellow yonder, a slaver has to look out for himself. Now, Mr. Duff, you are a gunner, I understand. I want you to make ready our stern chaser.
Immediately the machine upset, throwing the observer overboard, and sank on Berru forest." Meanwhile he had been made, on June 11, 1917, an Officer of the Legion of Honor with the following citation: A remarkable officer, a daring and dexterous chaser.
The dangerous thing had yet to be held right there until Lieutenant Perkins ordered the submarine chaser headed up into the sea. Then the bomb could be removed to a place of safety. The whole affair had occupied seconds, that is all. But all felt as though an hour had passed! "Good boy, Morgan!" declared Ensign MacMasters, his face shining with approval. "Is the mate hurt badly?"
"Good enough," he told himself, as he lay down to rest a bit and scan the blue heavens so as to learn whether there was any sign of a cloud chaser from horizon to horizon where the clumps of mangroves allowed him a clear vision.
But you was the lucky man. How is Missis Telfair?" "S-h-h-h!" said the dogman, signalling the waiter; "give it a name." "Whiskey," said Jim. "Make it two," said the dogman. "She's well," he continued, after his chaser. "She refused to live anywhere but in New York, where she came from. We live in a flat. Every evening at six I take that dog out for a walk. It's Marcella's pet.
"For a vain carpet knight, 'whose best boast was to wear a braid of his fair lady's hair, it strikes me our butterfly chaser has some points of a gentleman," said he, slowly folding his paper. "I might say more," he continued presently, retiring toward the hall. Then, pausing at the doorway, "but I won't," he concluded, and abruptly vanished.
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