“Here! Come back here!” called Jack to his friend.
Lord Hastings added his voice to Jack’s.
“Come back,” he cried. “Let him go.”
Frank waved one arm in the air and called back over his shoulder:
“I’ll get him. You wait right here for me if I am gone a year!”
Jack turned to Lord Hastings.
“Shall I jump over and bring him back?” he asked.
Lord Hastings shook his head.
“No,” he replied. “Let him go. If he can catch the German, all right; but I doubt it. However, when he finds that the chase is hopeless and that he is likely to fall into the hands of the enemy, he will turn back.”
“I’m not so sure about that,” said Jack. “Frank is rather hot headed at times, you know, and he is likely to chase him clear aboard a German warship.”