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Erskine rushed below, and soon volumes of smoke were pouring from the funnels, but it was almost too late, for the chaser was coming up so fast that the uniformed officers on her bridge could be distinctly seen. "This will never do," said Steele, and ordered the helm to be altered so as to bring the ship up to the wind.
So thereafter the chaser simply follows that surface wave until the submarine comes to the surface, as she must do sooner or later to get her bearings and look about for prey. When she does come up she goes down for good. The hunt of the chaser has been aided in the past year or so by the depth-bomb, which did not exist in the first two and a half years of war.
"I caught that big fellow, and I donate it to the officer's mess of the S. P. Eight-eighty-eight, right now!" The fisherman looked somewhat disappointed, for he was eager to make a penny. Whistler, however, gave him some of the smaller fish. The remainder were tossed to a grinning sailor upon the deck of the chaser. "Come right aboard, boys," Ensign MacMasters repeated.
"Why, no, Miss Lizzie, I haven't saw him to-day." Fluently came the "Miss Lizzie," for the Kid was known to be one who required rigid upholdment of the dignity of his fiancee. "I'm lookin' for 'm," said Liz, after the chaser had sputtered under her nose. "It's got to me that he says he'll take Annie Karlson to the dance. Let him. The pink-eyed white rat! I'm lookin' for 'm. You know me, Tommy.
The subject was dropped there, for it seemed to be exhausted. The night wore away very slowly, and nothing more was seen of the Fatimé's lights. The morning watch came on duty at four o'clock; but the captain did not leave the deck. It was evident to him that the sail had increased the speed of the Maud, and perhaps that was the reason she had run away from the chaser.
He was a benevolent-looking old fellow, and his face seemed to say, 'Don't hurry, little boy. He wasn't doing his prettiest, and I soon got away from him, but I made up my mind then, that it was more fun to be the chaser than the chased. "Another time I was out in our cornfield, and hearing a rustling, looked through the stalks, and saw a brown bear with two cubs.
Just think of his chaser coming right in here and not seeing the oiler in the fog. Tough luck!" "Say!" queried Ikey, "what did you hear, Whistler?" "Just about what you did," returned the older lad. "Nothing much." "What are we going to do?" demanded Torry. "Pay our bills and go to the train. It is almost time," said Whistler rather grumpily. And this they did.
They were called submarine-chasers, and while the destroyer and the seaplane, as one of the most effective weapons against the submarine, came to the fore, the chaser is employed in large numbers by England, France, and the United States.
Here's fifty men on this chaser. The Germans if they are Germans wouldn't stand any show. There are only a few of them," said Torry. "Including the black-whiskered chap Whistler tells about," Frenchy said. "Hey, Whistler!" "What is it?" asked the older lad seriously. "D'you really think that power boat we saw is going out to meet a submarine?" "Ask me an easier one," said Morgan. "I can't guess.
Just before it reached the house of Judge Owen, one of those troublesome boys who ought all to be sent to Blackwell's Island from the twenty-fifth of June until the tenth of July, had thrown a lighted "snake," or "chaser," under the belly of the near horse as he passed.
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