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Dave waited, well knowing that his hail could not carry to either engineer or owner over the noise that the "Duncan's" engine was making. Farley stood close to Dave watching. The tillerman also had his eye on the approaching craft. The other midshipmen, telling stories or staring out over the water, paid little heed. There could be no danger from the motor boat.
Still the motor boat came onward, at a speed something better than fourteen miles. "Hard-a-starboard!" Darrin roared back to his own tillerman. Then he repeated his hail. He was almost frenzied now; for the motor boat had not yet changed its course. Suddenly, when the two craft were almost together, the engineer, after throwing over his wheel, held up one hand.
Both the owner and engineer were well known, in these waters, as capable boat handlers and as men of judgment. Darrin, himself, did not believe that there was any danger. "Throw her head a point and a half off to the starboard," called Dave Darrin evenly. "Aye, aye, sir," responded the midshipman tillerman, and the sailboat responded slowly under the slight headway.
The members of the crews stood indolently at their stations. Yet Dave was as alert as ever. He stood close to the midshipman tillerman, looking constantly for signals from the flagship, and at the same time watchful for any wind signs. An hour or more they had proceeded thus.
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