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Updated: June 5, 2025
Behind the motorboat flotilla could be seen forms of larger and mightier ships of war the torpedo boats which were advancing in the wake of the mosquito fleet to surround the enemy submarines and capture or sink them. They came along close to the shore on either side of the river and the U-16 continued up the river in the exact center. "When we get by, they'll close in," said Lord Hastings.
The clouds hung heavy and low and it took no mariner to tell that a storm was brewing. Gradually the wind increased and the little motorboat tore along before it. Now the swell of the sea became heavier. Waves rolled higher and higher and the little craft first wallowed in the trough of the sea and then climbed the gigantic waves. "No wonder people get seasick," Frank muttered to himself.
The lad was of an inventive mind, as was his father, and in the succeeding books of the series, which you will find named in detail elsewhere, I related how Tom got a motorboat, made an airship, and later a submarine, in all of which craft he had strenuous times and adventures.
She was Joan-all-alone, she told herself, and added, with that touch of picturesque phrasing inherited from her well-read mother, that she was more like a racing motorboat tied to a crumbling wharf in a deserted harbor than anything else in the world. There was a knock on her door and the sound of a bronchial cough.
They returned to the motorboat, and, having laid in a supply of groceries, cast off their lines and steered away down the river. "Yes, sir, we'll find that girl if it takes all winter!" the fish-market man heard Doss tell Carline in a loud voice. That afternoon a man in a skiff came down the river and turned into the dock. As he landed, the fish-market man said to him: Yes.
The big motorboat, Ajax, was also being put in readiness. While Jack Jepson and the others were busy at the schooner there were also busy scenes at the studio, where Mr. DeVere and his daughters took part in many film plays. Nearly all the studio scenes for "Out on The Deep," had been completed. "But we must get that river attack before we start on the voyage," said Mr. Pertell one day.
"In the first place," said Lord Hastings, "they are so small that they escape the notice of a submarine until the motorboat is almost upon them; and then it is too late for them to act. Also, the motorboat, being small, is a much more difficult object to hit with a torpedo it is, in fact, a very poor target.
He recalled the motorboat which had darted, arrow-like, out from around the southern edge of the mangrove swamp, and which he had been watching when his scow went to pieces on the reef. If this were the same boat if its steersman chanced to be Milo Standish crossing to the key to learn if his murderplot had yet culminated so much the better!
You'll hear the blast in a second." And they did. Light travels faster than sound. They saw the steam from the powerful whistle before they heard the hoarse blast; even as one sees the flash of a gun before hearing the report. The steamer changed her course, and came on toward the motorboat. "Suppose it's the English one, that wants to capture poor Jack," suggested Mr. Sneed.
"You are the owner of this schooner, it is true, and as such you are my superior, but the law gives me supreme command of this craft at sea, unless I'm dead, or otherwise deposed. And I tell you I won't risk all these lives by trying to beat back in the teeth of this wind, to pick up a motorboat. It would be worse than criminal worse than wicked to do it. It would endanger all on board!"
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