CHAPTER XXV

THE HELICOPTER TO THE RESCUE Lieutenant Reginald Carfax, having tested the controls of his command, signed to a boat to approach. Then, boarding her, he was ferried across to the still stranded _Hermione_. "All correct, sir," he reported to his skipper. "Very good," rejoined Captain Purvis. "You know your orders--carry on." Carfax was a man of action, but of few words. Saluting, he turned and hurried aft, where his crew--the complement of one of the _Hermione's_ helicopter-seaplanes--had fallen in on the quarter…