“I was just looking for you, Captain,” he said. “Hutchings, the operator, wants to see you.”
“News from the Sky Eagle?” asked the captain.
“I don’t know, but he said it was important.”
The boys hurried after the captain to the wireless hut. Inside they found Hutchings, the operator, greatly excited.
“Bad news for you, Captain,” he said, holding out a yellow sheet of paper, “a message from the Sky Eagle. She is disabled and drifting out to sea.”
“By the trident of Neptune!” exclaimed the captain, scanning the message, “this is bad.”
He read the message aloud:
“On Board Sky Eagle.—We are disabled. Drifting out to sea off Scatiute. Send help.—Jennings, operator.”