u can do it," was Lord Hastings' prompt reply. "I haven't
sailed with you almost four years for nothing."
"You mean, sir," replied Jack with a smile, "that I haven't sailed with
you that long for nothing."
"That's more like it, Jack," put in Frank laughingly. "I've learned a few
things from Lord Hastings myself."
"It is hardly probable," continued Lord Hastings, "that your promotion has
been unearned, Jack. No, I believe you can fill the bill."
"In that case, I shall be glad to take command of the Plymouth
temporarily, sir."
"And how about me?" Frank wanted to know. "Where do I come in, sir?"
"Why," said Lord Hastings, "I have no doubt it can be arranged so you can
go along as first officer. I understand the first officer of the Plymouth
is also under the weather."
"But isn't all this a bit irregular, sir?" Jack asked.
"Very much so," was Lord Hastings' reply. "At the same time, many
precedents are being broken every day, and I can see no reason why two
British officers cannot lend their services to an ally if they are asked
to do so."
"It is a little different with me, sir," said Frank. I'm an American."
"All the same," said Lord Hastings, "you're a British naval officer, no
matter what your nativity."
"That's true, too, sir," Frank agreed. "I haven't thought of it in just
that way."
"Well," said Lord Hastings, "I shall report then that Captain Templeton
and First Lieutenant Chadwick will go aboard the Plymouth this evening."
"Very well, sir," said Jack.
This is the reason then that Jack and Frank found themselves aboard an
American destroyer in the Irish sea.
Frank Chadwick, as we have seen, was an American. He had been in Italy
with his father when the great war began. He had been shanghaied in Naples
soon after Germany's declaration of war on France. When he came to his
senses he found that his captors were a band of mutinous sailors. Aboard
the vessel he found a second prisoner, who turned out to be a member of
the British secret service.
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