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The wireless operator had thus far failed to raise the Kennebunk, although he called every hour. Mr. MacMasters and the warrant officer studied the chart anxiously. There were shallow waters hereabout, and although the steamer demanded little depth, there were bights between the reefs that were dangerous.
The terrible disaster at Elmvale, however, had sobered the four friends a good bit at the last. Seven Knott had gone away before it happened, so he had had no part in their later adventures. They were not even sure that he had gone to join the crew of the Kennebunk, the new superdreadnaught to which they were assigned for a brief cruise.
"I have just been relieved of her command. I am assigned to take you chaps on her to the battleship. I understand that we shall have a three months' cruise in the Kennebunk before we are returned to the Colodia," said the ensign. Whistler's eyes sparkled. "Then some of us will have a chance of handling the big guns, sir?" "That is the object, I believe.
The Kennebunk roared on through the storm for all of that day; but her hull was so huge that she scarcely rolled while she remained under steam. Most target shooting is arranged for ordinarily fair weather. Not often have battles at sea been fought in a storm.
". . . clockwork arrangement that may raise your name as an inventor to the nth power. That certainly means something. And that noise below does sound something like a clock." "It seems ridiculous," stated the commander of the Kennebunk. "And yet we must not refuse to believe that the secret agents of Germany are at work in the most impossible places.
If he succeeded the friends might be obliged to pack their kits and leave home again at almost any hour. The Kennebunk was fitting out in a port not fifty miles from Seacove. Meanwhile the chums were "having the time of their young sweet lives," Al Torrance observed more than once.
We found him a hard subject in clear weather; what can we do with him in thick?" "That depends on the old man; his very natur' is overlaid by what has happened already, and I rather think he will be for a fresh skrimmage" Marble was an uneducated Kennebunk man, and by no means particular about his English.
After communicating with the Navy Department by wireless, Captain Trevor decided to send the steam runner into Hampton Roads with the injured man, while the battleship continued her southerly course in compliance with her orders. The steam-screw tender of the Kennebunk was a good sized craft and perfectly seaworthy.
"If you don't believe a whale can swallow a man, jump down the throat of the next one you see." As a whole, the crew of the Kennebunk were not inclined to consider the incident of the infernal machine carelessly. A serious impression was made upon them all. But the mysterious prospect of what was ahead of them shortly smothered the matter of the peril escaped. There might be greater perils ahead.
They had been drilling every day on the steamer just as though they were aboard the Kennebunk. There was both a liferaft and a tight yawl aboard. These were got over into the comparatively quiet sea, water and an emergency ration-cask put aboard each, and Mr. MacMasters brought his instruments and papers, taking his place in the stern of the boat.
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