Evening star., 1940-07-21

where's Ada?" he said as soon
as 1t was down.
Shes all right. She got away.
So did her mother"
That's goodyear, ats swell
didn't think we'd make it."
With that his eyes closed and he
fell again into deep sleep.
Algae went out again and
searched through the various COM
partments. under the seats and in
little cabinets in the paneling. He
found canned food in a, carton la
heled "Rations: 8 ale4l--5 days"
He found gasoline and oil, tools
spare engine parts, lfebelts, rain
coats, navy blankets and most i'm
portant at the moment-first-aid
materials.
He took bandages and medi-
Gated grease for Dicks burns
and a splint for his broken arm and
for the next half hour busted him
self doing what he could for the
boys injuries. He found light
in the cabin and was able to do
a fairly neat job on the burns. When
he tried to set the arm Dick awoke
with a cry of pain. but there was
nothing for him to do but bear
with Algae for q minute and he
did, gritting his teeth and letting
the tears of pain run out of his
eyes like water. Then it was over
and the splint was on and Dick
nnInh Ia,
beads OF sweat standing out on his
forehead. Algae wiped them off
and laid blanket over him and
then he turned to the instruments
on the little panel under the wind
shield.
One of the instruments was
compass, and it indicated they were
facing almost due north at the mo-
ment. but that didn't mean much.
because they'd been just drifting for
over half an hour. The proba bility,
Algae figured, was that they had
gone almost due east from the
Georgia because he had turned hard
to the right and gunned it the in
slant he'd unlocked the davit ropes
He didn't remember looking back
to see the ship go down, but he was
pretty sure they'd cut around back
and across her wake. And If she'd
held her original course throughout
the storm, that would have headed
them east.
Finds PleMy Of Food.
Anyway, he slipped the motor in
gear, swung around to the west and
set the throttle at full speed ahead.
For an hour he drove with his eve
on the compass, OCCASIONALLY slowing
down and stepping out to the rear
deck where he could stand up and
look across the water for signs of
ship or of the lifeboats from the
Georgia. Another hour passed: still
ne saw nothing but open sea.
Dick began to stir and Algae went
back to the food compartment and
opened the carton of canned goods.
one can was labeled boiled beef"
and he opened that one with the
opener that was soldered to a tin
band around the top. He tried some
OF it himself and found it pretty
good. He went back to the cabin and
helped Dick into sitting position,
ana they ate the cold meat together.
Inc next can he dug out had choc-
olate sirup in it with directions for
mixing with water and heating. He
didn't know what he'd heat it with
until he found some canned heat"
kind OF jelly that produced a low,
blue flame when a match was
touched to it. After two cups of hot
chocolate apiece they felt a great
deal better.
For the first time Dick looked
around at their craft. Where the
devil did we get this bus?" he asked
incredulously. Il hadn't noticed
before, but this isn't any ordinary
lifeboat; it's practically a yacht"
1T was the captains, guess. I"
Algae replied, but where he went
1t wouldn't be much use. hated to
see it 60 to waste.
Dicks Mind Clears.
Dicks mind was getting clearer
now and he looked from one win
dow to the other. scanning the sea.
With the moonlight he could see
probably quarter of a mile. where
are the other boats?" he said after
4 moment.
II don't know-haven't seen q one
Of them since we cleared away from
the Georgia"
They rode e another half hour