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Frank and Jack, in their British hydroplane, went with them. For an hour or two the aeroplanes sped through the darkness at undiminished speed; then the foremost craft slowed down. The others did likewise. "Surely we haven't reached the German lines already?" said Jack. Frank shrugged his shoulders. "You know about as much of what is going on as I do," he returned.
He walked toward the beach and prepared to shove off the dinghy, preparatory to sculling out to the hydroplane, which lay a few rods off shore in the channel. "Hold on, Sam," cried Bill; "we're coming. Don't go away sore."
The hum of the motor suddenly ceased, and with its cessation the hydroplane was turned head-on toward the surface of the lake, four thousand feet below.
As the hydroplane drew nearer it was plain to make out that the vessel was the giant battleship the lads had quitted the day before. "Wonder what Captain Raleigh will think of our information?" said Frank, with a chuckle. "Don't know. We've been pretty fortunate, though. I hope we are in time."
"Admitting you're right, the thing's a pretty serious mess," said Ned. "But of course crooked people will go to long lengths for money, and if your formula is a good one, it certainly will bring a lot of money to someone or something." "And that something is going to be the Swift Company!" declared Tom. "Since we can't take off in the hydroplane today," said Ned, "let's go back to the office.
Accordingly, the hydroplane which was of course now in a condition for making a landing with the wheels below the aluminum pontoons, circled around, dropping lower and lower, until presently it came to a stop in the field close to the fence. When it landed it was done so beautifully that, as Andy enthusiastically said, an egg would hardly have broken had it come between.
As they thundered past the hydroplane, the slender craft lay almost motionless on the water, with a great cloud of blue smoke tumbling out of her exhausts. "Looks like they've flooded her cylinder," said Merritt, observing these signs. "Kr-ee-ee-ee-ee!" It was Tubby giving utterance triumphantly to the Eagle scream.
The hesitation of Jack Curtiss and his chum was over in a minute, as the hydroplane gave a plunge that seemed as if it would be her last. Lightly dressed as they were, in canvas trousers, sleeveless jerseys and yachting shoes, it was no trick at all for them to swim the few feet to the Flying Fish. As they leaped overboard, Sam lingered.
"There are those three fellows, and they're in trouble, from the looks of it." The others looked, and beheld, half a mile or so away, on the roughening waters, the hull of the hydroplane. She was tossing up and down like a cork, and apparently was drifting helplessly, with her motor broken down, in the heavy sea.
I may need it at a minute's notice." "I've got a hydroplane which I'll sell this spring to some yachtsman," said Manby. "It's a bargain you can do forty miles an hour in it, without getting a drop of spray. Shall I show it to you?" "Yes, and the two men who you will have alternating on duty, so they will know me when I come for it. I'll pay for every minute it is reserved."
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