Joe's anxiety increased to uneasiness.
"Say, Steve, do you think--is it all right--I mean--" "She's only doing about seventeen," replied Steve calmly.

"The throttle isn't nearly open yet.

But I guess that's enough," he added as he glanced across the water.

Perry, leaning across the gunwale, beckoned insultingly.
"Come on!" he called.

"What are you stopping there for ?" The _Follow Me_ replied to the taunt, but what the reply was they didn't know on the _Adventurer_, for the latter was ahead now by its full length and gaining perceptibly every moment.