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loss, too, see? Think I'm kidding. All right, then, get _this_! Get hold of that double-crossing flying ape of yours who shot us down, and ask him--_what direction was our plane flying when he shot us down!_ Go ahead, ask him that, and he'll tell you _south!_ And if he had his eyes open he probably saw us dump our gas hoping that the empty tank would keep us afloat longer. But it was punctured, so the plane sank in a hurry. But here's the point. Ask him about how much gas he saw us dump to empty the tank. If he can't tell you, _I can_. It was practically _a full tank!_ So figure it out, Admiral, figure it out. We were flying south with practically a full tank. Flying _back_ to our carrier? Not a chance! We were scouting out from our carrier trying to find out if your force, this force right here, was _trailing us up north!_" Dawson emphasized his words with a violent nod of his head. And then he added just one more word jab for good measure. "Okay. Throw us to the sharks. We're all washed up. But at least we've had the satisfaction of having the horse laugh on _you_. And what a horse laugh, as you'll soon find out!" As Dawson got the last off his lips he instinctively steeled himself and waited for the Jap Admiral to start screaming his head off. However, if he expected the Nippon killer to fly into a tantrum he was doomed to disappointment. Suicide Sasebo simply stared at him expressionlessly for a long, long time. Then he spoke in his native tongue, but his words were addressed to the big Jap standing just in back of the two air aces. Yet he held them with his eyes all the time he spoke. A few moments of silence followed his words, and then the big Jap spoke. A flicker of light, or something, seemed to pass across the Admiral's face. And then he spoke for the second time. The big Jap made hissing sounds, bowed low, and then took hold of Dawson's arm and Freddy Farmer's arm with fingers of steel, and turned them around and led them out into the companionway. Bewilderment and a faint sense of uneasiness welled up in Dawson, for he had no idea what the two Japs had spoken to each other. And if only he _did_ know! It would save so much for Freddy Farmer and himself. The first time Sasebo spoke he had ordered the big one to take the two prisoners down onto the flight deck, shoot them, and toss their bodies over the side. But he had only spoken thus to see if either of the prisoners understood Japanese. And when
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