Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats

e with the exit of the cove. If a destroyer is "a tin box built around a

quickness with which she got under way and the br

s, "about as wide as a happy thought, and can make her

"And it feels as though she w

gh he felt pained by that fact. That any other craft should be a swe

agreed Ensign MacMasters.

t be faster than the admiral's

t every other craft in the Navy beaten to a standsti

h carriers maybe?"

nt about his duty of conning the S. P. 888 as she shot through the breach between the claw

of sea, foamed-streaked and agitated, parted by the knife-sharp bows, and rolling away on eithe

re familiar; but her dull coloring made her well nigh unobservable at a few miles' distance when she lay at

rt. If she had kept straight ahead on the course she was going when la

and the oil boat's additional miles, in less than two hours. If the pursued v

; indeed it would not be conducive to discipline for the commissio

e warm incidents together; and there is always a particular bond

d us fellows, when those Germans tried to reca

to forget it?

Michael Donahue, complacent

n this oil tender we are cha

he Germans-if they are Germans-wouldn't stand any

d chap Whistler tells about,"

asked the olde

power boat we saw is goin

ell that German submarines and German raiders, and even Germany itself, pass news

d something, bo

, unless it is in a secret code. And they pick everything

as ever invented, t

other," grinned Frenchy. "You bet

ked so well, the chief wireless operator, got lots of informat

upplies. We don't know how many alien enemies may be running wireless stations

we're hunting just as she is unloading her cargo onto a sub. Then

It sounds easy. How many times did th

"even the Colodia couldn'

ou?" grinned Frenchy. "

not be controlled. No matter how speedy the oil boat might have been, the chas

new element was going to balk them. It was fog. The horizon

or the lookouts raise. But the growing fog cloud would soon have hid

ment. "We'll run on for a while; but it is hopeless, I gues

el that was whirling under the waterfall at the Elmvale Dam, although really, it did not seem to h

imilar and even less assured testimony every day, of suspiciously acting persons. The informatio

s it that he is out here on an oil-laden boat?" dem

re out fishing to-day," returned Mr. MacMasters, grim

slowly. They did not raise a craft of

go home by rail. I shall not be able to put in at Seacove ag

marine had one been near. There are very delicate and wonderful instruments aboard American naval vessels-instruments that may not be de

There was a quantity of small shipping in the place, and Ensign MacMasters did not want to take any

You will get your notice by telegraph when to join the Kennebunk, and where. I shall be relieved f

time neither Ensign MacMasters nor any of the four apprent

own, the S. P. 888 swung in a narrow circle and put out to sea so swiftly that in fiv

oys had long since learned to say nothing that would circulate information of any moment. "Keep your mout

their way among the moored craft, Whistler sud

rry, his closest chum. "You act

g po'k chops on the frypan,"

rning to the skipper of the smack

er? No! Noth

oo!" exclaimed

that came in just ahead of us. She's anc

scribed swiftly the oil tender he had marked that

on't know who owns her now. Used to belong to the Texar

den?" aske

so to me,"

o have no further talk upon the matter. After they got as

he passed us," Torry said. "What could she

w," agreed Whist

ll somebody," d

tler advised. "Come on now and get some supper

here. Just before they reached the restaurant they usually patronized when the

ing into Yancey's Res

t 'em?" Fr

ply in earnest, "is that man Blake. The othe

re you waiting for? Their eating at Yancey's