"We should sight her at about five o'clock, sir, if she doesn't change
her course, and if the wind holds the same," said Ensign Fullerton.
"If we get the right craft, first off, it will be a short cruise, won't
it?" smiled Jack, rather wistfully.
"I--I--" began Ensign Fullerton, slowly, then paused.
"Well?" smiled Jack Benson.
"On second thought, I believe I had better not say what I started to
say," replied the ensign.
"Oh, go ahead, Fullerton," urged Jack. "It isn't easy to wound my
sensibilities."
"I was going to say, sir," replied the Ensign, flushing a bit, "that I
quite understand how you feel about a short cruise. The sensation of
holding a command in the United States Navy is one that you would not
care to give up too soon."
"I was thinking of something of the sort," Benson admitted. "But--see
here! On one point my orders don't quite enlighten me. If the suspected
schooner proves not to be the right are we to come back to report the
fact?"
"If you were so to order," replied Fullerton. "Yet you do not need to.
This vessel is equipped with wireless, and you are in instant
communication, at every moment of the day and night, with the Navy
Department at Washington.
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