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The Secret Service men are unearthing them all the time." "Well," sighed Ikey, "I only hope we'll catch up with this oil tub we're hunting just as she is unloading her cargo onto a sub. Then! Blooey! We'll drop a depth bomb or two, and settle Mr. Submarine." "Just like that!" drawled Whistler. "It sounds easy. How many times did the Colodia chase a U-boat and lose it?"
That, and the fact that the full complement of the battleship's crew cannot be at once made up. There will be changes made in the crew of the Colodia when she returns from her European cruise. If you youngsters do well on the Kennebunk some of you may soon be gunners' mates. The present cruise of the Kennebunk is mainly for practice work."
Returning to the port in which they had been instructed to join the Colodia the evening before she again was to sail, the four chums were held up by a burning railroad bridge, which had been set on fire by German agents. It looked as though they would be unable to reach the Colodia on time.
"Did Hansie say he'd go?" cried the other sailor boy. "Bet he's sore as he can be because he's not with the Colodia and Lieutenant Lang." "He'd never 've taken this furlough, he says, if his mother hadn't begged so hard. Did you ever see a garby so stuck on a gold stripe as Seven Knott is on Lieutenant Commander Lang?" said Torry, rather scornfully. "I don't know. Mr.
"Crickey!" breathed Torry, "even the Colodia couldn't travel like this shark." "Oh! you admit it, do you?" grinned Frenchy. "Well, we are going some!" But there was an element working against the S. P. 888 an element which could not be controlled. No matter how speedy the oil boat might have been, the chaser could have overtaken her had she kept a straight course. That was understood.
MacMasters, "about as wide as a happy thought, and can make her thirty-five knots an hour without any particular effort." "No effort?" muttered Torry. "And it feels as though she was shaking herself to pieces!" "She's faster than the Colodia," observed Whistler, somewhat as though he felt pained by that fact.
A number of Naval Reserves would be put aboard this new huge ship; and the Seacove boys, with their experience in the training school at Saugarack and aboard the Colodia, surely would be of some use as temporary members of the dreadnaught's crew. The boys had written Mr. Minnette about Seven Knott, for he was eager to get back into harness, too.
"If the U-boat goes down the destroyer will dart in and drag depth bombs. Then good-night!" "Wow, wow!" cried Frenchy. "She's so fast she can cut circles around the U-boat, eh?" "Sure as you live!" said Torry. "My! that's a pretty fight. If that destroyer was the old Colodia, and we were only aboard of her! What fun!"
Their release from duty might end any day. Under ordinary circumstances the chum would have been assigned before this to some patrol vessel, or the like, until their own ship, the Colodia, made port. Mr. Minnette, however, was trying to place them on the Kennebunk, the new superdreadnaught, for a short cruise.
He tooted it raucously, and then continued: "They say some of 'em can go like the wind." "Go right through a tub like this, if once we got in the way," commented Whistler. "Mind you! faster than the Colodia and that's some speed." "Wow!" cried Frenchy. "Don't believe anything on water ever does go faster than a torpedo boat destroyer." "Oh, yes, there are faster boats. How about a hydro?"
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