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If the strangers from the ship did trace him by the suit, they were not going to follow the sub back to the post and serve the project as they had the Reds. "Got to get this off " He pulled the words out one by one, tugging frantically at the stubborn studs. "They can trace this and follow us " Kelgarries needed no better explanation.
Faber seemed to feel the influence of it notwithstanding, for he returned, "If all clergymen were as liberal as you, Mr. Bevis, there would be more danger of some of us giving in." The word liberal seemed to rouse the rector to the fact that his coachman sat on the box, yet another conscience, beside him. Sub divo one must not be too liberal.
For, after all, the secret charm of all these sports and studies is simply this, that they bring us into more familiar intercourse with Nature. They give us that vitam sub divo in which the Roman exulted, those out-door days, which, say the Arabs, are not to be reckoned in the length of life. Nay, to a true lover of the open air, night beneath its curtain is as beautiful as day.
As I watched that deadly thing, for the second time I felt distinctly unhappy; however, the refractory pin, or whatever it was, being fixed to his satisfaction, our sub. led the way out of the dingy hut and going some few paces ahead, paused. "I'm goin' to give you a liquid-fire bomb first!" said he. "Watch!" He drew back his hand and hurled the bomb.
The idea certainly seemed feasible. Suppose the submarine used a great many "microphones" or receiving transducers to pick up the sonar pulses beamed out by another craft trying to detect it? These impulses could then be passed on and sent out by speakers on the opposite side of the sub, and relayed along on their underwater path of travel.
It was 9.30 that night before they could safely be taken off. They were a moderately good-natured lot; but that was the blear-eyed trouble with making sub trial trips with bad weather coming on a man never knew about his regular meals. The supply-ship was quite a little institution herself.
The Great Elector, without actively interfering in the government, furnished with a civil list of six millions, and magnificently housed by the state, appointed the two councils of peace and war, upon whom depended the ministers and all the administrative personnel of prefects and sub- prefects entrusted with the government of the departments.
A little of the secret history was thus. Various propositions were offered in the House among them one of my own and all were referred to the Judiciary Committee. In the Judiciary Committee, upon my motion the various resolutions for amending the Constitution in that particular were referred to a sub- committee consisting of myself, Churchill of New York and Eldridge of Wisconsin.
Openin' the private office door easy I finds Old Hickory has settled back in his swing chair and is lightin' a fresh Fumadora satisfied. So I slips in, salutes respectful and jerks my thumb toward the directors' room. "I've put a sub. on the job, sir," says I. "Eh?" says he. "Oh, yes. Who did you find?" "A suspicious young stranger," says I. "I sicced him and Mr. Dowd on each other.
This time the blow was heavier. It sent them against the side of the compartment. "Ice beneath the ocean? Impossible!" exclaimed the Doctor. "Must be rocks!" Another blow hurled them in the opposite direction. Both realized the gravity of this new peril. If one of these blows caught the craft squarely it would crush the sub like an egg-shell. But the boat was slowing up. There was hope in that.
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