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"It's a fight, and a lively one at that," admitted the pilot, "but I reckon you're away off when you figure it's a ruction between those on the schooner and the boys of that speedboat." "You got me guessin' partner," said the puzzled Perk; "then who's mixed up in the shindy, I want to know?" "Sounds a whole lot like hijackers to me, Perk." "Ginger pop!
Shaped like a toothpick, needle-pointed fore and aft, with ultra-stubby wings and vanes, with flush-set rocket ports everywhere, built of a lustrous silvery alloy of noble and almost infusible metals such was the private speedboat of the chief of the T. S. S. The fastest thing known, whether in planetary air, the stratosphere, or the vacuus depth of interplanetary space, her first flashing trial spins had won her the nickname of the Silver Sliver.
The Topila was a federal gunboat. To complicate the affair, the constitutionalists, gathered on the north shore in the siege of Tampico, opened up on the speedboat with many rifles and a machine gun. "Lord, I'm glad they're Mexicans, and not Americans," Habert observed, after five mad minutes in which no damage had been received.
And across the water, the center of the moving circle of light, flashed a long, lean speedboat. A shell burst in the air a hundred feet astern of it. Somewhere, outside the light, other shells were bursting in the water; for they saw the boat rocked by the waves from the explosions. They could guess the whizzing of the rifle bullets. But for only several minutes the spectacle lasted.
As they made their way back to the speedboat, Rick spoke his thoughts aloud. "I guess the enemy uses muscles, too, huh?" Scotty answered thoughtfully, "Looks like it. Unless they really were holdup men." Rick shook his head, even though Scotty couldn't see the reaction. "Pretty unlikely. But suppose the enemy kept a watch on movements in and out of Spindrift?
Men were no longer simply talking or laughing as they so cheerfully labored in transferring some of the contraband from the sloop to the deck of the speedboat their voices were raised to shouts in which surprise, even the element of near-panic, could be detected. Then came a flash, succeeded by a sharp report, undoubtedly standing for the discharge of some species of firearm!
He remembered Barby's comment of the night before. Had they gone to the houseboat? Pointer to Disaster Scotty ran to the speedboat and yelled, "Come on!" "Wait!" Rick called. "Let's not go barging off without knowing what we're doing." Scotty turned, puzzled. "What do you mean?" "The girls have some kind of plan, and we don't know what it is.
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