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Updated: June 3, 2025
'What ship is this? asked Ken, when the first pangs of hunger had been satisfied. "Maid o' Sker." Mine sweeper. Skipper, Seth Grimball, was the brief answer. Then, after a pause, 'Where did you blokes come from? Ken told him, or rather began to, for before he had finished, the steady beat of the engines suddenly slackened.
The big shell had knocked her all to pieces. Grimball saw this too, and in response to his rapid order, the 'Maid's' engines stopped, and four stalwart fellows ran to the dinghy which lay in chocks on her deck. In a trice they had flung her over the low rail into the sea; two sprang in and pulled hard for the rapidly sinking 'Swan. All the time the guns ashore were rapping and roaring.
Although disturbed, Miss Grimball gently rebuked the girl for having disobeyed the camp rules in bringing jewelry to it and sent her away, bidding her speak to no one of her loss. Then Miss Grimballs silver purse containing ten dollars in bills was taken from her desk! Like a flash the story spread through the camp. The girls gathered in an excited group.
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