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As soon as they had joined, they found that they had entered another school, and one much more severe and thorough than the Seacove High School. They were learning something pretty nearly all the time, both in the training school and aboard the Colodia. And there was much to learn. However, Whistler and Al took the work more seriously than their younger mates.
The train for Seacove came along in a few minutes. The boys got aboard. Ikey ran ahead down the aisle of the car and got into a seat by an open window. The first thing he did was to thrust his head out of the window and look back along the platform as the train started. "Oi, oi!" he cried, under his breath. "Here he comes!" "Here who comes?" demanded Al Torrance. "The German spy," declared Ikey.
I don't believe Uncle Sam wants excuses." The standard the men set themselves in our Navy is higher than their officers require. The boys from Seacove, as well as Hans Hertig and Mr. MacMasters, kept a sharp lookout for their beloved Colodia. But they were fated not to meet the destroyer until the great event which had brought the superdreadnaught into European waters.
Below the factories the river water was of an entirely different color, and people in Seacove had begun to object to the filth from the Elmvale mills being dumped into the cove. Al Torrance stopped the car at the side gate of the biggest munition works just as the noon whistle blew. Seven Knott got out and began to look about for his friends to whom he had tried to talk enlistment.
Seacove, though a small place, was not so out-of-the-way in some respects as many actually larger towns, for it was a seaport, though not a very important one. Ships came in from all parts of the globe, and sailed away again in due course to the far north, and still farther off south; to the great other world of America, too, no doubt, and to the ancient eastern lands.
Nurse says so you were a regular roundabout till you had the measles; mamma says so too, replied Bridget philosophically. 'I'm quite hot, said Rosalys; 'fancy being hot in January! But we'd better not stand still or we'll get a chill. Isn't it nice to come out alone? I'd like to walk to Seacove I want to see what it's like, but of course we mustn't go so far.
'Well, suppose mamma lets you off as it's the first Saturday at Seacove, that will be threepence, and suppose I give you three pennies more, that will be sixpence with sixpence you could make important purchases at the penny counter, could she not, Rough? 'Certainly, I should say, Randolph replied. Bridget's face crimsoned with pleasure.
Vane, he hoped it would not be rheumatic fever, but it was plain he feared it. And he advised Mrs. Vane to get a trained nurse. A trying time followed. For some days it seemed almost certain that Mr. Vane was in for rheumatic fever; in the end he just managed to escape it, but he was sadly weakened, and the cough, which had disappeared since his coming to Seacove, began again.
As the group stood talking, along came a man, walking briskly from the direction the Seacove boys had come in their automobile. Two or three of the munition workers spoke to the man, who was broad-shouldered, walked with a brisk military step, and was heavily bewhiskered. Whistler stopped talking to a possible candidate for the blue uniform of the Navy, and looked after this stranger.
'There's better than a toy-shop a wonderful sort of place they call a bazaar, Rough replied. 'You may walk all round and look at the things without having to buy, and there's one part where all the toys are only a penny. Biddy clasped her hands in ecstasy. 'Oh, mamma, she said, 'may we go and see it to-morrow? Oh, I'm sure Seacove is ever so much nicer than London! Mr. Vane smiled.
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