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The boys of the submarine's crew, feeling that Mr. Farnum would want to be alone with his guest, also remained below. "Do you er like this sort of thing, Benson?" asked Don Melville. "The submarine boat work, you mean?" asked Captain Jack, brightly. "Why, it's my life my very life!" The glow that came to the cheeks of the young submarine captain bore out his words fully.
There were a few hurried words in the little group of four aft on the steam yacht. Then, with the "Pollard" running in closer, so that a bare fifty feet separated the two craft Mr. Farnum at the submarine's wheel Jack Benson plunged overboard, followed by Hal. The girl aboard the yacht leaped at once, the older woman following quickly.
Had the Allies deferred approaching the United States until after that event, the situation favored the belief that the submarine's behavior would have dictated a different reply from Washington.
"Very good, sir," said Frank, saluting as though he were aboard a ship of war and serving under a military officer. Captain Jack poked his head down the hatchway and called to Jack, who was stationed there: "Stop the engines, Mr. Templeton." "Very good, sir," was Jack's reply. The submarine's progress was stopped. She rode gently on the waves now, moving only with the tide.
The port engineer's gloomy visage portended tears, but through his narrowed lids Cappy Ricks saw not tears, but the light of murder. Terence did not speak, but thoughtfully puffed his pipe, and, with Murphy and Cappy Ricks, watched the booby hatch on the submarine's deck slide back and her long, slim, three-inch gun appear, like the tongue of a huge viper.
It was toward evening, when the red, setting sun gave promise of a fair day on the morrow that the submarine's deck lookout approached Tom, and, waiting until he had the attention of the young inventor, reported: "There is a smudge of smoke dead astern, sir." "Is there?" exclaimed Tom. "Let me have the glasses."
"It might be a cloud for all I can tell," he said, as he handed the binoculars back to Tom. "Well, it's a steamer all right, and she's under forced draft, too, if I'm any judge. We'll go below before she sights us." "Perhaps she has already," suggested Ned, as the crew began clearing the submarine's deck. "No, we lie too low in the water for that.
It was afterwards discovered that the watchman, who sometimes drank liquor, was at this moment sound asleep in one of the sheds. There was no time to be squandered in looking for him if Josh Owen was to be followed and foiled. Creeping to the now open door of the submarine's shed, Jack, who was in the lead, took a peep inside.
"Yes, and the commander of your boat is the same who played that wonderfully funny trick by leaving the submarine's card painted on the side hull of the battleship 'Luzon' during the hours when I was watch officer," replied the Naval officer, in an equally low tone. "But please don't refer to it before my comrades, They've stopped hazing me about it, and have almost forgotten the incident."
The report could not be verified, but Paris semiofficially intimated that she had indisputable proof that the Sussex was a submarine's victim. The two incidents coincided so well that the capture of the vessel was believed to have been made. Trebizond fell April 18, 1916, the Russian fleet cooperating in a grand assault.
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