“Aye, sir, I hope we will! I wish I was young enough to take a hand! But I ain’t. Nelson here’ll have to do my fighting for me, I guess.”
“Well,” laughed Martin, “he seems to be able to! Eh, Tipperary?”
“Rather! What price Number Four gun? Speech, Mr. Garey!”
Garey smiled quietly. “Number Four speaks for herself! And,” he added, “every time she speaks she says something!”
“I guess,” said Nelson, “I wouldn’t like any other gun so well. Nor any other ship so well. So I guess we’ll see it through together until we get what we came after, the little old Gyandotte and I.”
“Victory for the Allies!” said Tip.
“Peace for the whole world,” added Martin.
“Yes,” said Nelson soberly, “and the Freedom of the Seas!”
THE END