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There’s no sense in trying to run after that rascal and his wagon,” decided the young submarine skipper. “I haven’t the slightest idea what direction he took after he got out of sight, and—oh, gracious! I’m under orders to be aboard the ’Farnum’ at eight this morning. And on Mr. Farnum’s business, at that!”
Farnum’s office at the yard, Grant Andrews then going in the car after a doctor, while the others stretched Jack on the office sofa. The naval officers returned to the “Hudson,” at anchor in the little harbor below. “The young man acts as though he had been struck on the head,” was the physician’s verdict. “No bones of the skull are broken.
“If it looked that way, then I’m sorry,” Benson protested, in a tone of genuine regret. “All I wanted to make plain was that I couldn’t pass him on to our precious old boat without Mr. Farnum’s order.” Truax plodded slowly along behind the submarine boys, a cunning look in the man’s eyes as he stared after Jack Benson.
Farnum consider you capable of showing us the way into the harbor?” demanded the commanding officer of the “Hudson.” “I think so, sir. He trusts me with his own boats.” “Then you are—” “Benson, Mr. Farnum’s captain of the submarine boats.”
He concerned himself principally with the compass, his only other task being to keep the course by the “Hudson’s” lights, for the parent boat supplied in its own conduct all the navigation orders beyond the general course. The “Farnum’s” searchlight was not used, the gunboat picking up all the coast-marks as they neared land.
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