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Updated: June 18, 2025
And as the red-bordered banner with the white field is pulled out where the searchlight strikes it we can make out the figures formed by blue stars. "What!" says I. "Not 217 from this one block?" "Uh-huh!" says Minnie. "And every one of 'em a Fritzie chaser. 'Most a whole company. But ther'd been one less if it hadn't been for Stubby, and everybody knows there's luck in odd numbers.
The mouth of the harbor opened up to her, and in the gray light, as the chaser shot in between the headlands, almost smothered in foam, the men and boys on her deck sighted through the haze the towering hull of the great battleship. "There she is!" gasped Frenchy. "My! isn't she a monster?" "She's a regular leviathan," agreed Whistler. Even Torry forgot his discomfort and showed enthusiasm.
It was for him that she filed her nails with the care of a chaser, and that there was never enough cold-cream for her skin, nor of patchouli for her handkerchiefs. She loaded herself with bracelets, rings, and necklaces. When he was coming she filled the two large blue glass vases with roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince.
Occasionally we could see the flash, and hear the booming of a gun from the other vessel; but the night fell thick and dark; the waves too began to lash against the rocks, drowning every feebler sound in a continuous roaring; and every trace of both the chase and the chaser disappeared.
"Did you know he had been out at sea on an oil tender to-day?" blurted out Whistler. "She was chased by a submarine chaser, but the tender escaped in the fog. Afterward she came into Rivermouth Harbor without her cargo." "What's this? What's this?" demanded Mr. Santley. "Why, that has nothing to do with the factory." They were in his private office.
"It's pretty sure if she explodes we'll never join the Kennebunk's crew," was his chum's grim answer. The four friends from Seacove were not the only members of the ship's company that saw the depth bomb break loose from its fastenings. The second in command of the submarine chaser, Ensign Filson, and two seamen on lookout were on duty aft. "Stop that thing!" shouted the ensign.
Should the ICONOCLAST publish such a thing it would be promptly denounced from ten thousand pulpits as a pander to pruriency; yet against the iniquity of the Daily Chippie Chaser, alias the Houston Post, not one preacher has raised his voice in protest! Why? Because the dirty rag does not attack their religious dogma does not strike at their bread and butter!
He's an impractical will-o'-the-wisp chaser. Just like all the writing fellows." By this time they had reached the "Clarion" Building. "Come in, Dad," invited Hal, "and we'll talk to Ellis about Old Home Week. He's with you there, anyway." "Oh, he's all right aside from his fanatical notions," said the other as they mounted the stairs.
MacMasters will let us shell the Hun?" demanded Frenchy eagerly. "She'll more likely shell us," declared Torry, inclined to be pessimistic. "I bet we can run away from her," cried Ikey Rosenmeyer. "Say! this tender is no sub chaser. In a race with the S. P. 888, for instance, she wouldn't have a chance."
But as an enemy chaser, the airplane was still regarded with much distrust and incredulity. Some said it was useless; was it not sufficient that the airplanes of the army corps and those for bombardments could defend themselves? Others of less extreme opinions thought it should be limited to the part of protector.
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