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The two men -- Crawshay and Sam Hobson -- still a little breathless, stood at the end of the dock, gazing out towards the river. Around them was a slowly dispersing crowd of sightseers, friends and relations of the passengers on board the great American liner, ploughing her way down the river amidst the shrieks and hoots of her attendant tugs. Out on the horizon, beyond the Statue of Liberty, two long, grey, sinister shapes were waiting. Hobson glanced at them gloomily.
"Guess those are our destroyers going to take the _City of Boston_ some of the way across," he observed. "To think, with all this fuss about, that she must go and start an hour before her time!"