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A small dinghy-like boat was dispatched, and it returned with the man, a Japanese in lieutenant's uniform, whose beady eyes twinkled in alarm as Metcalf greeted him. "Well, Saiksi, you perfected it, didn't you? my invisible searchlight, that I hadn't money to go on with." The Jap's eyes sought the deck, then resumed their Asiatic steadiness. "Metcalf this you," he said, "in command?
"One for our Philippine squadron, one for the Hawaiian, and one for the coast. You overdid things, Saiksi. If you hadn't set fire to that sealer the other day, I might not have found you. It was a senseless piece of work that did you no good. Oh, you are a sweet character! How do you get your ultraviolet rays by filtration or prismatic dispersion?" "By filtration."
They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. "You, too, Saiksi," said Metcalf, coming toward him with a pair of jingling handcuffs. "Is it not customary, Captain Metcalf," said the Jap, "to parole a surrendered commander?"
I investigated and heard you had resigned to become a doctor." "But I came back to the service, Saiksi. Thanks to you and your light my light, rather I am in command here in place of men you blinded. Saiksi, you deserve no consideration from me, in spite of our rooming together at Annapolis. You took I don't say stole my invention, and turned it against the country that educated you.
"Saiksi, you're a liar as well as a thief. The colored lights you use to attract attention are the discarded rays of the spectrum. No wonder you investigated me before you dared flash such a decoy! Well, I'm back in the navy, and I've been investigating you.
Hail your craft in English and order all hands on deck unarmed, ready for transshipment to this boat. I shall join your fleet myself." A man was lounging in the hatchway of the submersible, and this man Saiksi hailed. "Ae-hai, ae-hai, Matsu. We surrender. We are prisoner. Call up all men onto the deck. Leave arms behind. We are prisoner."
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