Sabotage in the Sky by L. Ron Hubbard
Author:L. Ron Hubbard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, air adventure
Publisher: Galaxy Press, L.L.C.
Again she sewed lead between the longboat and the plane, and the sailors in the boat showed no liking for approaching the plane.
The longboat put about and, shot along by striving backs, closed in beside the destroyer and was hastily snatched up by blocks. The vessel surged ahead and, despite the anxious waving of one Erich von Straub from the settling BCA 41, got out of there at thirty-nine knots.
Not until then did Kip see what the English officer had tried to show her. A long pale gray ship was cleaving the waves toward the spot, a great dark plume streaming out behind. And from the other direction a second ship, a freighter, was coming up with all speed. It would be some time before they converged, and the naval vessel would get there first.
Kip, hardly daring to breathe as she circled, gun cut, marking the downed plane, heard the English boy chattering madly into the radiophone. And then she experienced a wave of disappointment. The naval vessel was not going to stop! It came by the floating plane at a distance of a few yards, nearly swamping itâand all it did was throw two life jackets at it!
âYouâve got to keep spotting!â shouted the English officer. âTheyâll get her. Oh, I say, what a show when they catch her!â
And not until then did Kip understand that the naval vessel was an English cruiser.
There were two puffs of white, one fore and one aft, and two seaplanes were catapulted outward from the cruiser. One leaped skyward to keep the Nazi destroyer in sight, and the otherâonce more Kip felt her heart begin to beat, for the other came back and made a landing beside the nearly vanished BCA 41.
She watched while they picked up two men from it and the plane again took the air. Then the English officer said, âThey say heâs all right, that Trevillian chap. Knocked about, but all right. Theyâll put him aboard and fix him up and send him back the first chance they get. Ohâoh, I say!â
âCan you fly?â said Kip.
âWhy, yes.â
âThenâthen fly us home.â
And she abandoned the controls to their fate and crawled over the bomb bay to sink down on the floor. She had had enoughâmore than enough. . . .
Six days later, having been put aboard a British freighter, Bill came home from the wars. He still wore a bandage about his brow where the gun butt had cut him, but otherwise he was all right. Long ago he had become immune to getting banged up badly.
It was all a mystery to him up to the time he had seen the Nazi destroyer going down. And to wake up and find himself in the midst of a sea battle, without any explanation whatever, had been the one thing which had preyed upon him.
He walked into the BCA office and tried to be as casual as possible. But what he was hoping was that he could get his check and get out of there before Cannard saw him.
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