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"Pardon, Madden, but who is that chap coming up Say, Gridson, that isn't why that's Wentworth!" The middy suddenly dropped his voice. "That's Wentworth or his ghost, fellows off of a tug!" Madden looked. Smith was coming on the deck under the solicitous escort of a surgeon. "That's Caradoc Smith," said Madden. "He assumed command of the tug when he found out war was declared."
"If you are not too bowled over, old chap," begged a middy named Gridson, "explain to us how a tug ever happened in the middle of the Sargasso in full flight from a hostile fleet." Some of the wounded were still coming up from the cutter, as Madden made a beginning of the tug's story. Just then he was interrupted by Ponsonby.
"Smith was part of his name," explained Gridson. "Caradoc Smith-Wentworth was the way he signed the register. He's of the Sussex Smith-Wentworths. His brother took the title, you know." "Just fancy!" marveled Ponsonby. "Cashiered six months ago, comes back chasing submarines on a tug, a hero, from boot strap to helmet a bloody hero "
"Hold there, Ponsonby," cautioned another officer named Appleby. "The chap may be hurt seriously you oughtn't to laugh." "Just look at the old man shaking his hand!" ejaculated Gridson, as a very erect gray-headed officer came down off the bridge and extended his hand. "You wouldn't think he had cashiered him six months ago."
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