One man half rose from his cot, whirled about, then fell on the floor. “No! Not you, Tom!” The doctor’s voice was gentle. “You’re too badly broken up.”
It was a motley and dangerous crew that at last marched silently out into the night.
In the meantime things were happening fast at Harbor Bells.
While preparations were being made for the battle Patsy had slipped back to the cabin. There she wakened Millie and Mary, who were to take the midnight watch. With their help she set up the television camera and began telling the exciting news to Beth and Bess.
As fast as the words were told off by Patsy’s talking hands, Bess phoned them to Norma at the Sea Tower.
Norma got Tom on the phone.
“Tom! Oh! Tom!” she stammered with excitement. “The sub is out by Black Knob, and the plane, too. If you could just go out and spot it, the big guns would blow the sub from the sea!”
“We’ll go!” said Tom. “You and I!”
“Oh, Tom!”