It    after da. t    various points on tructures. I ted forty destroyers, fwo he river.

        I    aboard as t reaciced a pair of jeans floating on ter, stiff . I abandoned my small outboard and jumped for troyer.

        ts and some pieces of special equipment ed    of plastic    feeling . I called out. ";

        Be formation -- ter, tly placed iion to ten to ts.

        traffi ter; t strange.

        It    six-ty; ttle. I decided to climb to tered t took tried to turn it a point or tally; it was locked in place.

        A maered from troom beely o me and removed my he wheel.

        it seemed more a ste unimpressive: dark rong nose, good mouto be in e fifties. ered troom. I followed him.

        "May I ask w;

        "Mot," he supplied.

        "-- is bound?"

        ansion.    a c.

        "If its a matter of sealed orders or somet;

        "No no,"    looking up. "Not." t;A bit careless tle boat, arent you?"

        t;Not normally. On trary. But somet;

        "Of course," ;You icipated.    ladder    secured?"

        I t about t. I decided to s tion slightly.

        "Are t;

        "No,"     ed my s ther ships.

        "Radio?" I asked. "Remote trol or somet;

        "Somet," he said.

        ty destroyers, fion to    one. I wo years as a supply officer in New London, principally.

        "Is test of some kind?" I asked. "Ne or --"

        "Youre afraid t arget practice? ; arily amused.

        "No. But ss on t;

        "It ,"    of troom aed s in front of the bridge windows. I followed him.

        "May I ask your rank?"

        " ask my name?"

        "All rig;

        "I am t;

        I looked again at ed no sug.

        "Objectively," ly.

        "My name is --" I began.

        "I am not ied in your name," ;I am only ied in your be my disposal forty-seven brigs, of able. Not t I believe you    t, I    you to do to t of coffee. Make sandled ba    and regarded the calm, even sea.

        "All rig; I said. "Yes."

        "You ; ed me.

        "Yes, sir."

        I    troyer until I found turned o the bridge.

        t;Admiral" drank ly. Seabirds made passes at t ic material t enclosed tallations.

        " is t stuff used for t; I asked.

        "Its a polyvinyl ate," ;Its sprayed on and to cut it open youd find inside, around t, four or five small clotaining silicate of soda in crystals, to absorb moisture. A very    system. It does just s supposed to do, keeps t good as ne;

        of mustard e coat,    again t    resembled not an admiral but a man from whom one would order drinks.

        " is your mission?" I asked, determined not to be outfaced by a man ard on .

        "to be at sea," he said.

        "Only t?"

        "t," ;t of ss, building tters, tris, naval arcects, people in t. ts bottle of ced ribbons    t sailors ing aboard, trials, tains for s ory. ticular ss leaving t tigervals, t e, taken. t over tory o three hundred some-odd very large volumes.

        "And t; ;too a depot in Neing plastic substa moored o ots class, painted, yes, at scimes, by a creers    is to paint ternally, finiso t and back to t again five years later. ato doubt knog off a little copper pipe ;

        "tockpiled against a possible neional emergency," I said. " o?"

        "I oga," ; my age."

        "But entions?"

        "I am taking t; he said.

        "You are stealing forty-seven s of ted States?"

        "t; ;Six submarines of t;

        "But w;

        "Remember t I ely, if I may say so, in accord ever t ted ticipated in trays and ables. I ime, I discovered t tently. ito take tice." ;No me?"

        "More t;

        "Good." elegrapo Full Ahead.
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