Part 21 (1/2)
CHAPTER XIV
GRIT GOES UP THE SIGNAL MAST
Even before Captain Tom turned he heard the sudden throb of the twin screws of the propellers, and felt the speed being reversed That told hi the ”Restless” in a hurry
As the young coht showed him that the seventy-footer had also stopped her headway
Hank was still at the wheel, but young Daas beside hi their anchor overboard,” cried Joe, pointing
”The water's shallow along this coast, of course”
”We'll ht in, between that boat and the shore, and drop anchor, too,” decided Captain Halstead, taking the wheel and reaching for the engine control He sent the ”Restless” slowly forward into place, then shut off headway, ordering:
”Joe, you and Hank get our anchor over Dalton can't get anything or anybody ashore, noithout our knowing it”
”But what can his plan be, anchoring on an open coast?” de the anchor
”Our job is just to wait and see,” laughed Captain Halstead
Mr Seaton ca of the boat meant
”It's some trick, and all we can do is to watch it, sir,” reported the young skipper of the ”Restless,” pointing to the anchored Drab ”Yet I think the whole situation, sir, points to the necessity for your takingon it without the loss of an hour”
”Either the registered er,”
whispered Seaton, hoarsely, in the boy's ear ”Yes, yes! I'll fly at the work”
”Don't hurry back below, though,” advised Halstead ”Stroll along, as though you were going below for a nap A night glass on the seventy-footer is undoubtedly watching all ouridly at anchor, on that smooth sea, their bows lay soht air was so still, and voices carried so far, that those on the deck of the ”Restless” were obliged to speak very quietly
Over on the seventy-footer but one hu showed himself to the watchers on the smaller boat This solitary individual paced the drab boat's bridge deck, puffing at a short-steuess what their game is,”
whispered Joe, curiously
”It's a puzzle,” sighed Captain Toh Dalton and Le to hold us here while so on shore”
”Then you think the tho landed on either bank of the river----”
”We know that neither of the to suspect that one, or both, of those fellows carried es, so our curiosity hold us up here while the ene at so the bulwarks with his toe
”They're clever rascals!”