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Be faithful to your first love, Morgan," laughed Ensign MacMasters. "I imagine they intend to send us all back to her in time. But whisper! the Colodia is across the pond. So I am told. There is something doing over there." "Crickey!" gasped Torry. "And we not in it!" "It may not come off before we get across in this new battleship " "Whew!" shrilled Frenchy, forgetting himself.
Ensign MacMasters, after some fishing, secured the loose end of the broken hawser. With the help of those nearest to him he hauled this out of the water. Then, by his advice, they all lashed themselves to the long rope with their belts or neckerchiefs. "No matter what happens, we want to hang together," he declared. "No one man can fight this sea alone."
MacMasters seriously, "if you do stir up these snakes, look for a fellow named Franz Linder. He is wanted in Elmvale, up there in New England, for blowing up a dam, destroying munition factories and drowning twelve innocent people. We'll be glad, Morgan here, and I, to hear about the capture of that scoundrel."
Mudge, leaped upon a bowlder and began to signal, semaphore fashion. The signals were returned and the cutter swung in shoreward and soon dropped a boat for the castaways. The shipwrecked seamen from the Kennebunk swarmed down to the strand. Mr. MacMasters whispered to Whistler that they would have their breakfast aboard the Coast Guard boat.
Ensign MacMasters, however, liked the boy too well not to take the first opportunity offered him to relate the happening on the S. P. 888 at officers' mess. After this it of course quickly reached the captain's ears. Whistler and Torry immediately put in their claim for gunnery work. They had studied faithfully and had had considerable training with the secondary battery of the Colodia.
Changes would quickly be made after the capabilities of the boys were established. Especially would this be so in assignments of duty relating to the ship when in action. The four friends had Mr. MacMasters to say a good word for them.
"Remember the rumpus we had, Mr. MacMasters and us fellows, when those Germans tried to recapture the Graf von Posen?" Ikey asked his mates. "Are we likely to forget it?" retorted Al. "What about it, Ikey?" asked Michael Donahue, complacently. "It was a lovely fight!" "Do you s'pose the fellows on this oil tender we are chasin' will fight?" asked Ikey. "Not a chance.
"How about the old witch's prophecy?" asked Torry wickedly. "Suppose we should tell these garbies about them?" "Don't you dare!" cried Whistler. That very morning, after sick call, he was ordered to appear before Captain Trevor in the commander's office, and there found assembled Ensign MacMasters and several of the other officers of the ship with the commander.
But they broke out of the fog bank the next morning to see dead ahead two boats, each pulled by four pair of oars, wearily approaching the course of the coastwise steamships. "I smell a U-boat about!" declared Ensign MacMasters, when he had directed the steamer's course to be changed to run down to the row-boats. He was right.
There was a moaning in the air, but distant. "That's going to hit us hard!" cried Mr. MacMasters. "It's more than an ordinary gale." "That's what it is, sir," admitted Mudge. "Wish we were ashore!" shouted the ensign. "Any chance, that you see?" They were off the coast of the second island now. That was heavily wooded and the shore was more broken.
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