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Updated: August 4, 2024
I asked, as soon as I was inside. I saw Joe Kivelson getting up from the radio and making place for Abe. "Who did you contact?" "The Mahatma; Helldiver," he said. "Signal's faint, but plain; they're trying to make a directional fix on us. There are about a dozen ships out looking for us: Helldiver, Pequod, Bulldog, Dirty Gertie..." He went on naming them. "How did they find out?" I wanted to know.
Joe Kivelson should have gone on the Helldiver, to have his broken arm looked at, but a captain's always the last man off, so he stayed. Oscar said he'd take Tom and Joe, and Glenn Murell and me, on the Pequod. I was glad of that.
He followed that for a short distance, and then turned off into a dimly lighted, disused area. Before long, I began noticing stacks of tallow-wax, put up in the regular outside sausage skins but without the Co-op markings. They just had the names of hunter-ships Javelin, Bulldog, Helldiver, Slasher, and so on. "What's that stuff doing in here?" I asked.
"Bring that machine gun, and what small arms you have. I think things are going to get sort of rough in Port Sandor, in the next twenty or so hours." I was beginning to think so, myself. The men who had gotten off the Helldiver, and the ones who got off Corkscrew Finnegan's Dirty Gertie and Nip Spazoni's Bulldog were all talking about what was going to have to be done about Steve Ravick.
They said that Pierre Karolyi's Corinne had just come in with a hold full of wax, and they were bringing it up from the docks, and where should they put it? Well, the men on guard believed that; Pierre'd gone off into the twilight zone after the Helldiver contacted us, and he could have gotten a monster in the meantime.
If the Helldiver was the only ship we could contact by radio, the odds were that if they couldn't see the rocket from Feinberg's ship, nobody else could. The same idea must have occurred to Abe Clifford. "You say you're all along the coast. Are the other ships west or east of you?" "West, as far as I know." "Then we must be way east of you. Where are you now?"
"That's if he doesn't get any drunker and forget," Joe said. Everybody, even Tom, looked at him in angry reproach. "We better find out what he drinks and buy you a jug of it, Joe," Oscar's gunner told him. The Helldiver, which had been closest to us when our signal had been picked up, was the first ship in.
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