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Updated: June 19, 2025
At this period of his career Captain Jack's greatest dangers came through the wiles of charming women spies, especially one beautiful young Russian woman, Mlle. Sara Nadiboff, easily the most clever of all international spies. Yet the cleverness of the submarine boys carried them successfully, and with highest honor, through the gravest situations in their eventful, young careers.
Nadiboff, who had bent over, her hand toying with the sand, suddenly clutched a handful of the fine grains and straightened up, hurling the sand full in Benson's face. In that same flashing instant Gaston darted behind the young American. As the half-blinded young captain dodged back, the chauffeur caught him around the neck, dragging him to the ground, while Lemaire sprang a-top of the boy.
"I saw that several were very anxious dance with you last evening, and that, whenever you were seated, men flocked about your chair." "Why do you suppose they did that?" challenged Mlle. Nadiboff. "Because you are a very handsome woman, and the men admired you," Benson answered, plainly. "Ah! Then you think I am handsome?" "I haven't a doubt of it," Jack answered. "Do you admire me?"
"I hope you won't be offended, Benson, but I understand you have already paid some attention to one of the brightest women in this line." "Mlle. Nadiboff?" cried Jack, guessing instantly what the other sought to convey. "Yes," nodded Graham. "Though I believe, when I first saw her, eight years ago, she was using some other name than Nadiboff."
There were more than two dozen of these photographs, some of men, some of women. On the same page with each picture was given the subject's true name, if known, also the spy's aliases, and other information. "Sara Nadiboff, twenty-nine, yet looks like twenty," muttered Hal, studying the information under the young Russian woman's photograph.
Nadiboff merely held the tighter, while the boy was conscious that she was gazing up at him appealingly. "I don't wish to be rude, Mademoiselle; don't, force me to be," the submarine boy urged. "Will you kindly release my arm?" Then, with a subdued though angry exclamation, the girl obeyed.
Though she did all in her power to charm Hal, and though she did succeed in interesting him, she could not draw the boy out into much conversation. Hal usually had little to say. Though he answered Mlle. Nadiboff courteously from time to time, he did not utter many words. Indeed, he appeared to be thinking of something far remote from the present scene. "Are you bored, Mr. Hastings?
Dinner, that evening, wasn't as confident a meal for the submarine party as luncheon had been. Both Mlle. Nadiboff and the Frenchman were in the dining room, though they did not sit together. Later, the young Russian woman appeared in the ballroom. She was as eagerly sought as a partner as she had been the night before.
But seriously, Mademoiselle, I haven't a sense of humor that will appreciate carrying a joke quite as far as that one was carried." "It was all a joke," Mlle Nadiboff insisted. "At least, M. Lemaire so assured me. What ever you may have thought, my Captain, I beg you will not believe that I had any notion of helping to cause you real discomfort."
Nadiboff or her companion; and, besides, I'm here openly as a reporter interested in the submarine craft." By this time the three had returned to the upper air. "I'll vanish, now," proposed Mr. Graham. "But you, Hennessy, if Captain Benson doesn't mind, might as well go along with him. You may get a good look at the Nadiboff woman. You, too, may think her very young. She has a knack of keeping so.
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