"You are back really sooner than I expected you," he said quietly.
"Have you learned anything?"
"If you please, sir," said Jack, "I shall skip the details until later. The German high sea fleet will be off the coast of Denmark before midnight!"
"What's that you say?" he demanded.
"It's true, sir," replied Frank, quietly, stepping forward. "The German high sea fleet, in almost full strength, will attack our patrol squadron in the Skagerak, off Jutland, tonight!"
For one moment Captain Raleigh looked at both lads closely. Then he cried sharply, including all in the cabin with his words:
"Follow me!"
He sprang for the bridge!
CHAPTER XIII
PREPARING FOR BATTLE
"Eleven o'clock!"