"What is it, Sheldon?"
"I think I can silence those guns, sir," Frank said.
A light came into the captain's eyes.
"How?" he asked.
In a few brief words Frank described his plan.
"But it's suicide," protested the captain. "There isn't one chance in a thousand that you'll come out alive."
"I know," said Frank. "But Raymond and I are willing to risk it if you give the word."
The captain pondered for a moment. It was a forlorn hope, but forlorn hopes sometimes won out.
"Go ahead," he said.
Frank nodded to Bart, and in a twinkling they had turned the big barrels over on their sides.