king his head. "How do you
figure to get 'em?"
"Rush 'em," said Jack briefly.
Again the captain of the Ventura shook his head doubtfully.
"Too risky altogether," he declared. "The first one of you that shows his
head down there will be potted, sure as fate."
"But we've got to do it, Captain," said Jack. "How else is it to be done?"
"Well," said Captain Griswold, removing his cap and scratching his head,
"I guess I can suggest a way."
"I'm open to conviction, Captain," said Jack.
"Aboard my ship," went on Captain Griswold, "I have a supply of a certain
sort of gas which, if used properly, will do in minutes what it may take
you hours to accomplish."
"By George!" said Frank. "Kill 'em all at once, eh?"
"Well, no, it won't do that," replied Captain Griswold, "but it'll put 'em
to sleep long enough for you fellows to go down and tie 'em up."
"Bring on the gas, Captain," said Jack quietly.
Captain Griswold hustled back to his boat with the agility of a small
school boy.
"Back to the ship," he roared to the sailors who rowed him.
He mounted the ladder swiftly and summoned his first officer.
"Helgoson," he said, "those Britishers have gone and almost captured that
submarine. It's up to us to help 'em complete the job."
"How, sir?" asked the first officer.
"Do you know where that gas tank is below?"
"Yes, sir."
"Fetch it here. It's small enough so you can carry it. Also get the hose
and the pump."
"Yes, sir."
The first officer hurried away. He was back in a few moments with the
necessary articles, which Captain Griswold took charge of himself.
"Helgoson," said Captain Griswold, "if you were a younger man I would
invite you to take a hand in this party yourself. As it is, you'll have to
stick behind with the passengers."
"But I'm younger than you by almost twenty years, sir," protested the
first officer.
"Oh, no you're not," laughed the commander of the Ventura, "you just think
you are. I've grown twenty years younger this day."
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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.
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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.