e helpless lifeboats. What execution had
been done Jack had no means of telling at the moment, but he knew there
must have been some casualties.
"The brutes!" he muttered.
The duel between the submarine and the destroyer still raged. It appeared
that the commander of the submarine was a capable officer, for he had
succeeded in keeping his vessel from being struck by a shell from the
Brigadier.
In the aft turret of the Brigadier the British tars were sweating and
muttering imprecations at their inability to put a shell aboard the enemy.
"Here," said Frank, "let me get at that gun."
The crew stepped aside and the lad sighted the weapon himself. Then he
fired.
Again a cheer arose aboard the Brigadier. Frank's shot had been
successful. The shell struck the submersible squarely amidships, and
carried away the periscope.
"Fire!" cried Frank, and the other guns broke into action.
Again there was a wild cheer.
The submarine began to settle a few moments later. Men emerged from below
and sprang into the sea.
"Lower a boat!" cried Jack. "I want a few of those fellows."
A boat was lowered instantly and strong hands pulled it toward the Germans
floundering in the water.
By this time the lifeboats that had escaped the German fire came alongside
the Brigadier and the occupants climbed aboard the destroyer. These were
quickly fitted out with dry clothing. It developed that there had been
three women passengers aboard the Hazelton and all of these had been
saved. A dozen members of the crew, however, had been killed by the enemy
in the lifeboats.
Jack assigned quarters to the victims as quickly as he was able, and then
calling his officers about him, awaited the return of the boat which had
gone after the Germans who had leaped into the sea.
"If the act I have just seen is a sample of the German heart," Jack said,
"I never want another German within sight of me so long as I live."
CHAPTER VI
CHANGED ORDERS
As the Germans came aboard--ten of them--they
Notka biograficzna
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.
Cytaty domy z drewna domy z drewna domy z drewna Piękny slub dla każdego Jozef Oleszkiewicz Panek
Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.