Danvers, "perhaps you'd like to go forward, on deck, and see when this
dummy torpedo is fired?"
"I surely would," agreed the submarine boy "And Eph can just as well
come with me."
The two submarine boys, therefore, hastened above, out on the platform
deck, and then further forward on the upper hull, until they lay out
along the nose of the "Hastings."
Danvers reached Ewald's side in the tower, while Biffens waited below,
at the lever, for the firing signal.
The "Hastings" was now drifting, rather aimlessly, something more than
four hundred yards away from the scow. As the sea was roughening all
the while, the two submarine boys out forward were having a hard time
of it. Added to that, icy spray was falling over them.
Lieutenant Danvers quickly rang for speed and then brought the submarine
boat within about three hundred yards of the scow, and at a position that
pointed the nose of the "Hastings" at the middle of the scow's hull, the
line of fire making a right angle with the scow.
"Get ready to watch, out there!" warned the naval officer.
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