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Don stood just beyond his father's chair, regarding the leader of the submarine boys with a supercilious stare. There was such silence, for a few seconds, that the ticking of the big clock in the corner sounded almost like hammer-blows. "You understand fully, do you not, Benson?" demanded George Melville, breaking the silence. "I heard you, sir," Jack replied, not without an effort.
"Me?" he said, with deadly mildness; "sure not. Can't you see I've got a divin' suit on? I'm goin' up in a submarine balloon to catch butterflies with a two-inch auger. "Excuse me," said Haywood, with the insulting politeness of his caste, "for mistaking you for a gentleman. I might have known better."
No other entrance, apparently, except that from the waters of the harbor led to this peculiar den. Lying quietly moored to the rocky piers lay three submarine boats. Further back, on a ledge of rocks, blasted out, stood a little building, a sort of office or headquarters. Near-by was a shed where were kept gas and oil, supplies and ammunition, in fact everything that a submarine might need.
Without a word he broke into a run, heading for the narrow little shingle of beach. “Got an idea, Captain?” shouted Jacob Farnum, darting after his young submarine skipper. “Yes, sir!” floated back over Jack’s shoulder. “Then what’s at the bottom—”
Hastily he wrote a note on a piece of paper. "Send one of your men to my headquarters with that," he said, handing it to Woodward to read: RODGERS, Send new submarine telescope by bearer. You will find it in case No. 17, closet No. 3. "Right away," nodded Woodward, comprehending and calling a soldier whom he dispatched immediately with hurried instructions.
It had been Jack Benson’s purpose to go to his room and keep out of sight, while despatching one of the colored bell-boys of the hotel with a note to Hal Hastings, asking that chum to send him up a uniform and other articles of attire. However, before the young submarine captain fully realized what was happening, the two porters had seized him.
A few moments more and the submarine was racing along toward the mouth of the Euphrates, where the enemy was known to be. Just as dusk was setting in, Brown, the gunner's mate, reported an aeroplane to leeward. Captain Nicholson, Jack and Frank, who stood on the bridge, could just make it out with binoculars.
After the American declaration of war the Admiral was placed in charge of the naval forces of the United States abroad and thereafter worked in close cooperation with our European associates. The German submarine policy had been put fully into effect; no solution of the submarine menace had been reached; and English officials were fearful that England could not last longer than November 1.
This plan was successful, except that occasionally the wire was broken by an extraordinary burden of sleet in the winter season. This method of crossing the lower Hudson was continued for more than ten years, when it was superseded by submarine cables.
There have been reports of submarine duels between Austrian and Italian submarines in the Adriatic in which it was claimed that in each at least one submarine was destroyed, and, at least, in one instance both the duellists were sunk.
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