Once again, their schedule could take a beating.
Fifteen minutes later, he got the bad news.
“Captain,” said the obviously disturbed George Oliver, “There’s nothing I can determine without tearing some things apart. We might have some kind of obstruction in the fuel lines or the trouble could go much deeper. In order to find out we’re going to have to shut down. Good thing there’s no wind at the moment. Maybe you should come down here.”
Hans called Charlie in the radio room and told him to come up and take over for a while. Passing through the port tunnel, his bile was once again rising. This looked like it was going to be another episode in a badly written soap opera.
Beneath the afterhouse, George and Ken were working feverishly over the eerily silent diesel. They did not as yet have much to report. They had found some unidentifiable foreign matter in a fuel line, which was not good, but they had no idea how it got there, or what it was, or worse, how far it might have traveled before the slow down had begun. Before they could fire up and get underway, it would be imperative to dig further into the engine.
While all of this was taking place, two of the wipers, Spencer Kinsman and Alex Flynn (no relation to the second mate), were maintaining tight surveillance on Norm Bitterman, trying not to be too obvious, but never letting him out of their sight. Norm asked to be allowed to help with the repairs. Hans would have no part of that. Norm could be innocent of any wrong doing, but this was not a time to take any risks.
Another day was slipping away. Again Hans’s hands were tied. All he could do was to wait and fret over where they would be when the weather turned sour and further barred their progress. His thought process brought him back to Miep, wondering when and if he would hold her again safely in his arms.
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