Part 3 (1/2)
”Two, besides the dummies, will be plenty”
”Then I'll run over to Mr Partridge, the superintendent of the yard, and he'll have a fore subly, this was done Then the party slated for the afternoon cruise went over to the hotel By the time that they came back from the s”
and the target was in readiness to be towed out to sea
This ”target” was not a handso and broad of beam, that had once been used, up the coast, in sea-wall construction work Mr Farnuht it a short time before and it now lay at anchor, near the beach, ready to be towed out to sea for its last service tointended to sink the craft's keel as far as was advisable The old scow had now soht, with less than two feet of freeboard
Two of the workmen, in an old whaleboat, waited to row the party out to the ”Hastings” Jack was soon able to welcome Lieutenant Danvers on board the submarine
”You can look around all you want, Ewald and Biffens,” suggested Mr
Danvers, ”and see if you can find any great differences between this craft and the 'Pollard' and the 'Farnuly, made themselves wholly at home in the interior of the submarine
”Both men have put in tours of duty on the first two boats turned out by your company,” explained the officer ”They know all about the two Pollard boats that the Navy bought”
”Then they won't find very s,'” Jack replied ”All that is new here is in the way of a few more up-to-date littlethe old 'Pollard' would really be wholly at home here”
A few minutes, only, were allowed for inspection of the newest submarine of the lot By this ti hawser between the bow of the old scow and the stern towing bitts of the ”Hastings”
”Use enerally,” requested Lieutenant Danvers Jack therefore ordered Ewald and Biffens forward on the upper hull to cast loose froine-room, while Jack himself sat at the wheel in the tower
In another s” was nosing briskly out of the harbor The gasoline engines this little craft were of a ”heavy service” pattern, which adapted the sub at need
”How far out do you want to go, sir!” asked Captain Jack, as the Navy lieutenant took a seat beside hione below
”We want to be sure to be well out of the path of coastwise vessels,”
replied Danvers ”That's theaour fun”
”With this tow, then, it will be three o'clock before we get out where we really ought to be, sir”
”That will give us at least two hours of good daylight,” nodded Mr
Danvers ”Of course you know this coast well enough to pick your way back after dark?”
”I'd run the craft five times the distance, under water, and hit the harbor without thought of an accident,” spoke young Benson, seriously, and with no thought of boasting
”Jove, enius at the work,” lance at Skipper Jack
”I've done as hed Jack ”Either of my friends could do it, for that s of the deep!” declared Lieutenant Danvers, heartily