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A SCIENTIST IN THE MAKING 1 Early in the twentieth century the annual Memorial Day parade was passing through a New England town. The sun shone hotly down till the tarvia of the road felt soft and s…
THE STORM-CLOUD The next act of our story opens in the year 1937. An international crisis of the most momentous nature had just come to a head in Europe. For some years past a group of powerful men i…
THE MOBILIZATION Early in October, about four weeks after Mortimer’s sail around Cape Cod with Evans, the United States declared war against the Constantinople Coalition, otherwise known as “The Medi…
PROGRESS IN JEOPARDY Immediately after the return of the commission to Washington, a meeting was held in the Bureau of Engineering, at which those results of the mission to England which had to do wi…
THE STORM-CENTER MOVES EASTWARD The loss of their island bases seriously hampered the enemy in their submarine warfare on the great stream of trans-Atlantic shipping. Submarines were now based on Lis…
THE HUNT During June and July, Evans devoted a liberal share of his attention to the radio-compass problem. He felt that the apparatus was still on trial. A slight lapse might cause this instrument o…
THE FLEET ARRIVES In August the preparation of Punta Delgada as a base for the entire fleet was completed, and the fleet arrived. In supreme command was Admiral Johnson, a distinguished figure, a man…
DISPATCHING THE SECRET MESSENGER Evans now lived aboard the battleship Delaware , Admiral Johnson’s flagship; and here the life was different, indeed, from that on the mother-ship of the destroyer fl…
THE ROUND-UP An earlier chapter has told of the planning of a fleet of net-laying ships to coöperate with chasers on their drifting patrols and to surround at short notice a designated spot where a s…
THE POWER OF SUGGESTION As the winter wore away, great troop convoys poured a seemingly endless stream of American soldiers into Northern Europe to reinforce the armies there, worn as they were with …
