Thorne Guy. The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War
PART I
CHAPTER I. REJECTED FOR SERVICE. MR. JOHN CAREY'S EXPLANATION
CHAPTER II "THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG ABOUT THIS HOUSE"
CHAPTER III. BERNARD CAREY, LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER OF SUBMARINES
CHAPTER IV. DORIS AND MARJORIE GIVE A SUPPER PARTY. THE ARROW FLIES IN MORSTONE SEA WOOD
PART II
CHAPTER V. AT MIDNIGHT ON THE MARSHES. THE SECRET OF THE OLD HULK
CHAPTER VI. HOW JOHN CAREY FOUGHT WITH THE GERMAN GIANT IN THE SALOON, AND "MR. JONES" MET UNEXPECTED THINGS IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER VII. THE MURDER OF MR. LOCKHART
CHAPTER VIII. THE TRUTH AT LAST, THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH! AND HOW THEY FOUGHT FOR THE SUBMARINE
PART III
CHAPTER IX. OUT IN THE NORTH SEA. PREPARING FOR ACTION
CHAPTER X. THE SPEAR OF FOAM
CHAPTER XI. THE SUBMARINE FIGHTS FOR ENGLAND
CHAPTER XII. THE LAST CHAPTER – IN TWO PARTS
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On thinking it over, I date the extraordinary affairs which so thrilled England and brought me such undeserved good fortune from the day on which I tried to enlist.
The position was this. My father was an engineer with a small, but apparently thriving, foundry at Derby. My mother died and my father sent me to Oxford, my younger brother, Bernard Carey, being an officer in the Navy. At Oxford, I was one of that perennial tribe of young asses who play what used to be called the "Giddy Goat" in those days with the greatest aplomb and satisfaction to themselves. I was at a good college – Exeter – for originally we were west-country people, and all sons of Devon and Cornwall go to Exeter.
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I said good-bye to my brother, who was to come down to Morstone almost immediately, and one dull, bitter afternoon in the middle of December, I found myself in a third-class carriage going home – once more a hopeless failure.
I could see old Upjelly's mocking sneer, I could hear little Lockhart's titter; old Pugmire would say, "A gin and soda is clearly indicated in this crisis." And Doris – what would Doris say?
