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Understand?" Lord Hastings' face fell in well-feigned disappointment. He appeared to draw himself together, saluted and said with an apparent effort. "You shall be obeyed, sir." "Take them away, then." Lord Hastings ordered the three marched to the side of the vessel, where they stepped aboard the little boat. Then they were rowed rapidly toward the U-6.
There is excitement aboard all the enemy. Twenty knots, Mr. Templeton, and shape your course due north." The little craft leaped ahead as Jack gave the command; and at the same moment a torpedo, fired by the nearest enemy craft, flashed through the water where the U-6 had been a moment before. It was a narrow escape.
Farther back he saw the two others of the enemy listing badly to port, and knew that they had received their death blow. The fourth and last vessel was still unharmed and was bearing down on them at full speed. Even as Jack looked there came a puff of smoke from one of her forward turrets and a great splash, less than a hundred yards ahead of the U-6, told that the submarine had been discovered.
It struck a hundred yards to the right of The Vulture. "Poor shooting," declared Jack. The others nodded. "She'll do better next time," said Frank. The lad proved a good prophet for the second torpedo skimmed over the water missing The Vulture by inches. At the same time The Vulture launched a torpedo and the three aboard the U-6 gasped as it seemed that the missile would surely strike home.
However, I would rather have him escape than let him send us to the bottom; and I have no doubt he will reason along that line. Now, when we reach the surface, we will go to my cabin and remain there until we hear him pass my door." A few moments later the U-6 emerged from the depths and the three immediately went to Lord Hastings' cabin and closed the door behind them.
You may steam at ten knots, Mr. Templeton." Jack gave the order and the vessel moved down the river. Shortly after nightfall the submarine, U-6, was proceeding into the North Sea, for it was there that Lord Hastings believed he would be more likely to encounter Davis and the U-16. "Besides," he explained, "our usefulness is not at an end in the matter of obtaining information from the Germans.
He gave the command to go forward and the U-6 moved swiftly ahead. As Lord Hastings had said, it was not a long run, and two hours later, standing on the bridge, the boys made out in the distance the lofty spires and steeples that they felt sure was the Belgian seaport. And they were right.
Lord Hastings stepped to the periscope, pushing Jack firmly aside. "We'll move off and let them fight it out," he said. "Full speed ahead, Mr. Templeton!" Another few hundred yards from the two other submarines, Lord Hastings ordered the U-6 brought to a stop. "We'll stop here a bit and watch the battle," he said. The U-6 rose to the surface and the three officers ascended to the bridge.
We may put into Ostend again if necessary." All during the night, although Frank, Jack or Lord Hastings was continually on the bridge, they did not encounter anything that looked like an enemy ship, although the U-6 dived several times when it drew close to a British ship of war one of the blockading fleet Had the submarine approached too closely it would have drawn a shot from the battleship, whose commander could not possibly have known that the German submersible carried a British crew in the service of King George.
Get out the boats and order the men on deck." Again the man took the time to salute and then disappeared below. A few moments later the full crew of the U-6 appeared on deck and the boats were quickly gotten out. "Rifles and revolvers for each man," ordered Lord Hastings. The men already had armed themselves; so Lord Hastings gave the word to take to the boats.
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