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Lower and lower in the water went the craft, until it was about two hundred feet below the surface. Then Mr. Swift left the conning tower, descended to the main part of the ship, and asked Tom and Captain Weston to take charge of the pilot house. "Send her ahead, Tom," his father said. "That fellow up above is rubbing his eyes yet, wondering where we are, I suppose."
We were caught out in the severe November northeast storm of 1898 in which over 200 vessels were lost and we did not succeed in reaching a harbour in the "horseshoe" back of Sandy Hook until, of course, in the morning. The seas were so rough they would break over her conning tower in such masses I was obliged to lash myself fast to prevent being swept overboard.
Ah, yes when that Johnny brought word of an accident, a serious accident to her brother, Maitland, naturally enough, the gallant soul, hurries her off in his car, sending word by aforesaid mad Johnny." Vic went to the outer door, feeling the necessity for a somewhat careful conning of his tale to give it, as he said himself, a little artistic verisimilitude.
"So I should say, and we are headed a little too much to the westward. Make the course south by west half west, Mr. Ballard." This course was given to the quartermaster conning the wheel.
It was the everlasting Song of To-morrow, always the one tune set to changing ideals. It was the same idea as the philosophy about each man's "interpretation" of the story already written, which Conning had reflected upon so often. At this time Truedale believed he firmly accepted the principle of foreordination, or whatever one chose to call it.
But it is, of course, true that the man behind the gun, the man in the engine room, and the man in the conning tower, considered not only individually, but especially with regard to the way in which they work together, are even more important than the weapons with which they work.
It happened on that day that Paul Jones was out in his yawl when a severe squall arose. Mr. Younger and the villagers watched the boy bring his small sailing-boat straight against the northeaster into the harbor; and Mr. Younger expressed his surprise to Paul's father, who remarked: "That's my boy conning the boat, Mr. Younger. This isn't much of a squall for him." The result was that Mr.
But the schoolboy is cooped up in an apartment, it may be with a number of his fellows. He is seated at a desk, diligently conning the portion of learning that is doled out to him, or, when he has mastered his lesson, reciting it with anxious brow and unassured lips to the senior, who is to correct his errors, and pronounce upon the sufficiency of his industry.
"Over there, straight to the west," Ned said, pointing from the conning tower of the submarine, "is the coast of China, not far from seventy-five miles away." "And there, to the north," Frank said, "lie the Taya Islands. The big fellow beyond is Hainan." The sun was going down into the Gulf of Tong King like a ball of red fire, and the night was far from cool.
Farnum to say: "We are satisfied with this part of the work. Let us return to the surface for a welcome look at the sky." "Will you hold your watches, gentlemen," inquired Captain Jack, "in order to see how much time passes before we are running on the surface?" One of the members of the board, watch in hand, climbed up the staircase to stand beside Eph in the conning tower.
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