sent.
"It's a big job I have now," he told himself. "I hope I can carry it
through successfully."
But he didn't have the slightest doubt that he could. Jack's one best
characteristic was absolute confidence in himself.
CHAPTER V
A RESCUE
H.M.S. Brigadier was steaming steadily along at a speed of twenty knots.
Jack himself held the bridge. Frank and Lieutenant Hetherton, who stood
nearby, were discussing the sinking several days before of a large allied
transport by a German submarine in the Irish sea.
"She was sunk without warning, the same as usual," said Hetherton.
"The Germans never give warning any more," replied Frank, "Of course, the
reason is obvious enough. To give warning it would be necessary for the
submarine to come to the surface, in which case the merchant ship might be
able to place a shell aboard the U-Boat before she could submerge again.
So to take time to give warning would be a disadvantage to the submarine."
"At the same time," said Hetherton, "it's an act of barbarism to sink a
big ship without giving passengers and crew a word of warning."
"Oh, I'm not defending the German system," declared Frank. "I am just
giving you what I believe is the German viewpoint."
"Nevertheless," said Hetherton, "it's about time such activities were
stopped."
"It certainly is. But it seems that the U-Boats are growing bolder each
day."
"It wouldn't surprise me," declared Lieutenant Hetherton, "to hear almost
any day that U-Boats had crossed the Atlantic to prey on shipping in
American waters."
Frank looked at the second officer sharply. He was sure that Jack had not
divulged the real reason for their present voyage, and he had said nothing
about the matter himself.
"Just a chance remark, I guess," Frank told himself. Aloud he said: "I
hardly think it will come to that."
"I hope not," replied Hetherton, "but you never can tell, you know."
"That's true enough, too," Frank agreed, "but at the same--"
He broke off suddenly as he caught the
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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