"Is that the way you address women when they are helpless?" Dave demanded, tauntingly.
"When they take part in conversations without being asked," the German answered, curtly.
"I have heard it was a way with the naval men of your country," Dave drove back, tauntingly.
Von Schellen reported:
"We are now sixty feet below the surface, and headed west by southwest. Any further orders?"
"None," replied the commander. "Keep to the course until I direct it to be changed."
With a stiff salute von Schellen turned and vanished.
"Your Yankee friend shall not catch us this time," jeered the ober-lieutenant. "Listen! Can you hear his propellers? We are going directly away from him."
"He will catch you, in the end," Darrin retorted, "or some other comrade will. I know how many of your craft our Navy has put out of commission, and I know how many our Allies have destroyed."
"But you do not know how many submarines we have left, nor how fast we are building them," mocked the German commander.
