Bohannan was with him, also Leclair and Captain Alden.
The engines had already been started, and the helicopters had begun to turn, flickering swiftly in their turbine-tubes.

The Master settled himself in the pilot's seat.

All at once a buzzer sounded close at hand.
"Well, what now ?" demanded the Master into the phone communicating with the upper port gallery.
"Smoke to southward, sir.

Coming up along the Coast." "Smoke?
A steamer ?" "Can't see, sir." It was the voice of Ferrara that answered.

"The smoke is behind the long point to southward.