The survivor by White Robb 1909-1990

Author:White, Robb, 1909-1990
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Scholastic
Published: 1964-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

matter what they did the streams would break through, slamming against them.

At each failure they grew more wild, until at last one of the marines grabbed a rifle from the mess and started hammering on the steel handles of the dogs with the butt, trying to force them to close more tightly. When the stock broke he kept on hammering, pieces of the rifle breaking off and flying around the room, the barrel bending, the forearm shattering.

"It won't work," Adam said, almost to himself and walked over to the torpedo tubes and sat down on the Httle raised platform.

As the marines moved around at the other end of the room, Adam could see the water either in streams or splashing down on the men and the gear.

He couldn't understand why, but somehow the sight of the water made him feel—good. It was water, water from the sea. It was something he understood. Something he was familiar with. Unlike the whole nightmare—the combat gear, the combat talk, the rifles, and the daggers—the water was real and not strange to him. It was the sea. The sea he had surfed on a thousand times, the sea he had been swimming in a milHon times, the sea he had watched for so many hours waiting for the surf to roU. Or just sitting on some beach watching the sea.

He knew full well that the water streaming past the door and now ankle-deep on the deck was a menace to his life. He knew that the water was going to keep on coming in there, rising to their

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