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All the same, I'm inclined to believe that Ensign Carruthers needs a talking to. He didn't take the time to calculate the range correctly." "I'll speak to him," said Frank. "Do," said Jack. "In the meantime we'll run close to the Ventura and I'll go aboard for a word with her captain." The Ventura's wireless was working again now, and Jack himself took the key. "Lay to," he ordered.
And he was immensely popular in the neighbourhood, no doubt because he was the father of four rather good-looking, marriageable girls; and as he kept open house his kitchen was always full of visitors, mostly young men, who sipped mate by the hour, and made themselves agreeable to the girls. One of Don Ventura's most delightful traits that is, to us young people was his loud voice.
"But I'd like to get my hands on that fellow," and he related to Frank the manner in which the German commander had shot down the wireless operator aboard the Ventura. "By Jove! What a murderous scoundrel!" muttered Frank. Jack nodded. "No worse than the rest of them, I'll wager," he said. "But, hello! The Ventura's moving again."
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