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They pulled away just in time, and got the little engine to kicking as the wrecked auxiliary craft of the Kennebunk sank stern foremost under the sea. As she went down her bows rose out of the water and the castaways saw the great wound torn in two of her water-tight compartments by the mine.
While the whole ship's company was watching the imitation periscope Frenchy and Ikey had slipped overboard through the ash-chute, the real submarine might have torpedoed the Kennebunk. The score of each gun crew was transmitted to Washington by favor of the auxiliary steamer which towed the target, and she disappeared coastward just at sunset.
Besides, the Kennebunk must run off the coast, beyond the approved steamship lines, to a point where she could be joined by a naval vessel dragging the target. There were lectures on gunnery that day to the gun captains, and the boys off duty who were interested in the subject might listen to this instruction. Phil Morgan and Torrance availed themselves of the privilege.
In March, 1646, they decided in favor of Rigby, and made the Kennebunk River the boundary-line between the two rival proprietors, thus reducing Gorges' dominions in Maine to only three towns Gorgeana, Welles, and Kittery, which had grown up at the mouth of the Piscataqua opposite to Strawberry Bank.
Their record, too, aboard the Colodia and with the prize crew on the captured German raider would be taken into consideration when permanent appointments were made upon the Kennebunk. Hans Hertig immediately took his rightful position as boatswain's mate. His rating was assured.
But, after all, the apprentice seamen must prove themselves before the officers of the superdreadnaught were likely to give them much consideration. The act of particular courage that had brought Whistler Morgan into prominence on the submarine chaser the night before would scarcely be taken public notice of by Captain Trevor of the Kennebunk until it was mentioned in orders from Washington.
Junior Lieutenant Perkins has come back to his command and we are only guests aboard," and Ensign MacMasters laughed. "We are about to have a taste of rough weather outside, too, I fancy. But our instructions are to make the port where the Kennebunk lies before the morning tide." "Has the submarine patrol boat, Eight-hundred-eighty-eight, come into the harbor, sir?"
But the moment we reach the Kennebunk I will put it into Captain Trevor's hands never fear." "Shall we really catch the battleship, sir?" asked Whistler eagerly. "We've got to, Morgan;" declared Mr. MacMasters. "As you boys say, 'there is something doing' and we must be in it." "But the battleship has changed her course, has she not, sir?"
The whole letter was probably thrown into the fire on the hearth and this piece failed to be destroyed." "You've hit it right, I fancy," agreed the officer. "Something queer about this old woman and about this place." "She knows we are from the Kennebunk, too. How should she know so much if she wasn't in with the spies?"
While she was thus engaged she talked to Whistler. The boy noted, as his chum had, that she arranged her spoken sentences much as Germans do who are not well drilled in English. Yet she had the southern drawl and accent. "I know whar yo' boys come from," she advanced almost at once. "Yo' are from the Kennebunk battleship and she's a fur ways from here."
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