"Sorry I'm not able to make your acquaintance under more favourable auspices," was the greeting of Captain Pennington, the master of the captured Myra , when the two subs introduced themselves. "But I hope before many hours that we will be set at liberty."
"We've been hoping that for weeks," said Denbigh. "The luck those fellows get is astonishing."
"So I should imagine," agreed Captain Pennington. "I learnt at Cape Town that the Pelikan was given up as lost, as some wreckage and one of her boats were picked up in the South Atlantic. That is why our cruisers relaxed their patrol, and were ordered to rendezvous at Zanzibar. There'll be a dozen or more on their way up."
"And any monitors?" asked O'Hara.
"Four, as far as I know," replied the Myra's skipper. "One was detained for repairs a
