Jack Benson made a little grimace.
"Serious business, this fighting on the ocean, isn't it?" he replied.
"It's stranger to think about than it is to be doing it," replied
Andrews, musingly. "I know. I was in the war with Spain."
"How did you feel?" asked Eph, quickly.
"Tired, most of the time," replied Andrews. "Sick some of the time, and hungry the rest."
"But about being scared?" insisted Eph.
"I was kept too busy, generally, to have any time to give to being scared. I was a soldier, and a soldier is a good deal like any other workman. He does his work by habit, and soon gets over thinking much about it."
There was a long pause, broken by Eph, saying:
"I wonder when they're going to let the boat rise?"
"When they're going to try to make it rise, you mean," corrected Jack
Benson.