at
must be the answer."
Less than an hour later, the Essex passed behind the shelter of the reef
Jack had mentioned. There Jack ordered her stopped, and anchor dropped.
"We should be out of sight here," he said, "unless, as you suggested,
Frank, the enemy should come to the surface at this point. And we'll have
to trust to luck that they don't."
"And now what, sir?" asked Frank.
"I'll let you select a hundred men of the crew for shore duty," said Jack.
This task did not take long, and Frank had picked and armed his men within
half an hour.
"Now," said Jack, "I'm going to put you in command of the party, Frank.
Lieutenant Hetherton shall go along as your immediate subordinate. Two
officers are enough. The rest of us will wait here. But if you have not
returned soon after daylight, we'll start a search for you."
"I can see no reason why we should be longer," said Frank. "We'll do the
best we can."
"Then I would suggest that you go ashore at once," said Jack. "You must
reach the Cutlip home while it is yet daylight in order to lay your
plans."
"Right, sir," said Frank, saluting. "We shall go ashore at once."
They put off over the side in small boats and rowed toward the shore,
where they landed less than an hour after the Essex dropped anchor. Jack
waved a hand to his chum from the bridge.
"Good luck!" he called.
Frank waved back at him, then addressed his men.
"By fours! Forward march!" he commanded.
The party, with young Cutlip in their midst, moved inland.
CHAPTER XIX
IN THE NIGHT
It was not a long march to the Cutlip home, and the Essex party reached
there some time before nightfall. Young Cutlip now whispered a word of
caution to Frank.
"My father will not like this," he said. "He is naturally a cautious man.
If he thinks I have given the alarm--am responsible for your being
here--it will go hard with me."
"Then he must not know it," said Frank decidedly. "Do you think he will be
home now?"
"Yes, sir; most likely."
Frank co
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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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