im overboard. I'll trust to you to keep the
submarine occupied and to get a boat to me."
"It's a desperate venture, Jack," Frank protested.
"So it is," was Jack's reply, "but I've a longing to capture this fellow.
If we just sink the submarine, I can't do it of course. Another thing, it
may be that I am not doing just right in leaving my ship, but it will only
be for a couple of hours and I know you can handle it as well as I can."
"Oh, I won't sink her," grinned Frank. "But why not let me be the one to
go?"
"Because I'm not sure you can handle the German commander."
"But you're sure you can, eh?"
"He'll have to be something new in the line of a German if I can't."
"All right," said Frank. "Have it your own way. You're boss here, you
know."
Meantime the Essex and the Ventura had been drawing closer together.
Directly a boat put off from the destroyer and ran alongside of the
steamer. Jack clambered over the side and the launch returned to the
destroyer.
Captain Griswold was waiting for Jack.
"Now what's up?" he wanted to know.
"Come to your cabin and I'll explain," said Jack.
In the seclusion of the cabin he outlined the situation. When he had
concluded a sketch of his plans, Captain Griswold demurred.
"But I don't like to risk my passengers," he said.
"You won't be risking them any more with me aboard than you will without
me," Jack explained. "Besides, you will have the additional protection of
the destroyer. In fact, it may be that the presence of the Essex will
scare the submarine off, but I doubt it. The German commander, as all of
his ilk, is angry at having been balked of his prey. He'll probably have
one more try, destroyer or no destroyer."
"Well," said Captain Griswold, "you're a British naval officer and should
know something, whether you do or not. But I'll tell you right now I hope
the submarine doesn't show up again."
Nevertheless, Captain Griswold was doomed to disappointment, for the U-87
did reappear.
It was almost 6 o'clock in
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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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