"This is no joking matter," declared Frank. "I'm not naturally nervous, as you know, but right now my nerves are on edge."
"Just the after effects of the battle," said Jack, quietly. "You are all unstrung."
"I'm unstrung, all right," Frank admitted, "but the battle had nothing to do with it. I tell you something is going to happen."
"Well, what?"
"I don't know."
"It's a poor hunch, unless it will tell you what is going to happen," declared Jack.
"Have it your own way," said Frank. "But wait."
"I'm waiting," said Jack, cheerfully.
The Indefatigable also, following Captain Reynold's wireless conversation with Captain Raleigh, had dashed after the retreating Germans at full speed.
Gradually, although in the darkness neither their commanders nor anyone else on board realized it, the Queen Mary and the Indefatigable, dashing ahead at full speed as they were, were drawing closer together at every turn of the screws.