. True blue, the adventures of Mel, Ned, and Jim . he had struck another of thosedevilish cans. There was now no hope of savingher. The boys could make out her crew tryingfeverishly to launch their boats. Ned started hismotor full-speed ahead, then told Bill Summersto make straight for the sinking vessel. By the timethe fishing-boat had ranged within hailing distance,the vessels decks were awash, and her boats werestanding by waiting for the final plunge. It wasnot long in coming. A sudden sinking by the head,a slow surge forward, her stern raised itself slowly,then the water seemed to run up
. True blue, the adventures of Mel, Ned, and Jim . he had struck another of thosedevilish cans. There was now no hope of savingher. The boys could make out her crew tryingfeverishly to launch their boats. Ned started hismotor full-speed ahead, then told Bill Summersto make straight for the sinking vessel. By the timethe fishing-boat had ranged within hailing distance,the vessels decks were awash, and her boats werestanding by waiting for the final plunge. It wasnot long in coming. A sudden sinking by the head,a slow surge forward, her stern raised itself slowly,then the water seemed to run up her sloping deck,there was a mighty rush of air, and the strickenvessel went into the depths like a stone. All aboard the fishing-boat had been absorbedin the tragedy which the sea had swallowed up, butthere was now leisure to attend to those who hadbeen so suddenly dispossessed of their home. For-tunately, the boats had all got away safely, andthey now lay as scattered specks on the broad of them was making direct for the THE TRAGEDY AT SEA 125 Ned picked up his glasses, and examined it , he uttered an exclamation. Somethingfamiliar in one of the occupants caused him to rubthe lenses of his glasses, and look again. No, hewas not mistaken! Jim, he yelled, come here!Thrusting the glasses into Jims hands, he cried:Who is sitting in the stern of that boat? Jimlooked, and his mouth slowly opened. eNed,:he said, kick me, I want to see if I am he lowered his glasses. The boys looked eachother squarely in the face, and simultaneouslyuttered the one word: Mel!5 CHAPTER XIIMEL TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TRIP AFTER saying good-bye to Ned and Jim, Mel,with her mother, returned to the looked perfectly happy, as, indeed, she hope that Ned and Jim will enjoy their trip, shesaid. Oh, I should have liked to have gone withthem, Mother dear, but girls are such nuisances,she added with a laugh, always getting in the , I want
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