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Order a swift torpedo boat flotilla down the river as many as are available and have half a dozen torpedo boats equipped with nets to take their places behind the motorboat fleet." "And then?" "Well, the motorboats will attack the submarines as soon as they appear. A few of them undoubtedly will be sunk. Then let the rest retire. The submarines, submerged by this time, will travel forward a bit.
A dozen or more of the little motorboats and coastal patrol vessels had been sunk, and the loss of life had been heavy. Several others of the destroyers had been badly damaged, but there was not one of the larger vessels sunk or crippled so badly that she could not return to her home port.
"I suppose you think these motorboats can jump like broncos?" declared Jud Elderkin, with a look of disgust; "else how would they ever get around that big dam down at Seely's Mills? We could crawl a few miles up the Bushkill, but to go down would mean only a short cruise."
"Goodness me!" cried Laura, at last; "it isn't what do we want, but how little can we get along with! Discard everything possible, girls do!" Bobby Hargrew declared Lil Pendleton had started to pack a Saratoga trunk, and that she had been obliged to point out to Lil that neither of the motorboats was large enough to ship such a piece of baggage.
"It's one of the vessels that those other motorboats the ones we sunk were to have reported to." "I believe Frank is right," agreed Jack. "It probably comes to the surface here every night, awaiting their return." "In that event the chances are that most every one aboard is asleep," remarked Lord Hastings. He gave the command for The Hawk to proceed. "What are you going to do, sir?" asked Frank.
At this point have the torpedo boats, with nets stretched, proceed down each side of the river. Of course, the torpedo boats must advance at the moment the motorboats flee." "But I should think the Germans are too wary to be caught in a trap like that." "They won't be, because they expect the raid to be too unexpected for such details to have been arranged. Only one stipulation.
They presently could see the other shore looming up, though it was getting very dark, just as though a storm might be threatening to again demoralize them. "Getting more shoal, Paul," warned the pole heaver. "How much water have you now?" demanded the leader, ready to give the signal for bringing both motorboats to a stop, when it seemed necessary.
The motorboats and their tows got off into the stream. There sat the deserted dog on his tail, howling most dismally as the boats drew up stream and left him behind. Laura called to Purt in the other boat: "Never mind, Mr. Sweet, I don't think you'll be troubled with that dog any more. It's twenty miles to Lake Dunkirk. He will never follow you that far."
"I suppose you can go faster if you like. Will you let her out a bit?" "Wait till I get away from the railroad station and the docks, Dick. I'll have a clear way before me in a little while, and then I can show off, but just now I'd rather take it easier." "H'm! you take it easy enough as it is. Why, one would think that you had been used to motorboats all your life."
And have the poles ready to fend off, if we get into any bad hole." The boys were strung along the sides of the slowly moving motorboats. Every fellow came near holding his breath with nervousness. "Excuse me from getting stuck here in this nasty mess," remarked Nat Smith, on board the roomier boat with Jack, Bobolink, Tom Betts, Andy Flinn, Curly Baxter, Spider Sexton, Frank Savage and Bob Tice.
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