Danvers. "I
don't make out that fellow, Radwin. He must be taking the engine trick."
Jack Benson also sauntered over to port side, though not with any
intention of addressing the naval officer. Benson was not thinking of
anything in particular as he glanced out over the waves.
Then, all of a sudden, the young submarine commander sprang alert with
suspicion--next, certainty and horror!
Out there on the water something was moving--something headed toward
the "Hastings." It came on with a swift, cleaving movement. There was
a suspicion of a fin throwing up a little spray in the path of motion.
It was horrible--unbelievable!
The mere suspicion galvanized him into action.
Captain Jack's feet barely seemed to touch the deck as he leaped forward.
Eph was at the wheel, but there was no time to shout a frenzied order
that might be misunderstood.
Besides, in the instant that he was in the air, young Benson had no
sharply defined plan of what he was going to do.
But that fin over to port was the half-visible upper part of a moving
torpedo! It was headed so as to intercept the "Hastings" on her slow,
forward course.
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