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"Once more," said Frank to Cutlip, "will you tell me what you know of those men?" "I tell you I don't know anything," answered Cutlip doggedly. "Tie him up, men," said Frank briefly. The sailors sprang forward and laid rough hands on Cutlip. The latter protested vigorously with his mouth, but he offered only feeble resistance.
"I'll attend to you later," said the father, "not that I'll have need to, probably, for the Germans will attend to both of us. What ails you, anyhow? Don't you know that the Germans eventually will be masters of the world? If we stand in with them, it may help." "The Germans will never be masters of the world," said Jack. "You are laboring under a delusion, Cutlip. Your son is a brave boy.
When he had concluded, Cutlip again asked: "Will you release my father now, sir?" "Certainly," said Jack. "You have borne yourself right bravely, and we have much to thank you for, as has your country. It is too bad that your father is not of a different stripe." The boy's face flushed.
On the instant young Cutlip leaped to his feet, rushed to the door, threw it open and dashed outside. There he was right in the midst of the Germans. But the latter were too busy and too surprised to pay any attention to him at that moment. They had wheeled at the first volley from the woods, and had turned their own weapons against the trees on three sides of the cabin.
There, a scant hundred yards from shore, lay the submarine. The little party moved silently to the edge of the water, and as silently embarked in the half a dozen small boats they found there. "Push off!" Jack commanded in a whisper. Now young Cutlip had been left behind, but the father had elected to go with the men in the boats.
"Looks like your good father had been very busy," he said to young Cutlip with a smile. "That's what the Germans will have the whole world doing for them if we don't lick 'em." "You're right there, sir," agreed Lieutenant Hetherton. "Well," said Frank, "we'll leave these things as they are. It will help divert suspicion from young Cutlip here when the Germans find his father is not on hand.
"Your trouble, Cutlip," said Frank, "is that you have read too much about them. I know that the country has been flooded with German propaganda, but I'd no idea it had affected anyone like that." "But " Cutlip began. Jack silenced him with a gesture. "You'll have to change all your ideas now, Cutlip," he said. "You see that the German is not a superman. We have beaten them.
Not only did he warn us of the presence of a German submarine off the coast, but he rendered such other assistance that the entire crew has been either killed or captured." Cutlip showed his surprise. "You can't mean it!" he exclaimed. "Why, how could you overcome them. They are supermen. Ever since the war started I have been reading about them. They are wonderful fighters marvelous."
Tell the captain to hold him until we return." The man touched his cap. "Aye, aye, sir," he said. Then to Cutlip in a rough voice: "March, now." The three disappeared, Cutlip grumbling to himself and the sailors grinning. Frank turned to young Cutlip, who had watched these proceedings with some disfavor. "Now, my boy," he said, "we can get ready for business."
A short time later the sailors who had conducted Cutlip the elder to the Essex returned and took their places. "Did he go along peaceably?" asked Frank of one of the newcomers. "Well, he kicked once or twice," replied the man, "but he went along all the same, sir." Frank grinned. "Just so long as you got him there," he said.
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