“Do you wish convoy?”
“No, thank you,” Dan signalled back, as the destroyer slowed down for an answer. “We can look out for ourselves.”
“You don’t look it,” came back the response.
“We’ll get in, all right,” Dan replied by signal.
“Sorry for you,” came the reply. “Think we’d better stick by.”
“Confound him,” muttered Dalzell. “He means well, but if he stands by us he’ll spoil our good chance of trapping some more of these submarines.”
“Ask him who commands,” Darrin suggested.
Dan ordered the question signalled.
“Preston,” came the reply.
“We know him well enough,” laughed Dave. “He was at Annapolis with us.”