Got anything handy in the way of firearms ?" Quest nodded.
"You don't need to worry," he said.

"We've automatics here, but as long as we're heading them this way, they'll know the game's up." "We've got her!" the captain exclaimed.

"There's the ferry and the first of the steamers coming down in the middle.

They'll have to chuck it." Right ahead of them, blazing with lights, a huge ferry came churning the river up and sending great waves in their direction.

On the other side, unnaturally large, loomed up the great bows of an ocean-going steamer.