The Motor Boys Bound for Home

eaded for Brest, the port from which the craft had so recently sailed. And also it is easy to guess something of the man

does i

ng to let us go

mans started

strike

torpedo

, nor was it out of the bounds of possibility that she might have been torpedoed. Some German captain of a submarine, not having heard of the signing of the armi

t on all sides ar

has ha

e to answer it for them. They "milled around" on the decks, surging this way and that until they threat

asked Jerry of a captain with

e machinery. But there is no danger. We are only a short dis

the questioning still persi

ng to find out wh

o!" excla

. "Maybe the galley

on[11] somewhat. Then he added: "You two boys had better stay here. If three of us chase a

out what it is come back

ised his tall chum

he troopship, readers who are meeting Ned, Bob, and Jerry for the first time will

not much need be said. It need only be stated that the present series, under the c

Baker. The youths lived in Cresville, in one of our New England states, and their interest in locomotion dated from the days of their early boyhood, when they owned motor cycles. It was their activities[12] on these mac

the Pacific, and in Strange Waters. Trips above the clouds followed in airships of various makes

of the parents of Ned, Bob and Jerry. It was decided that the lads had better "buckle down" to s

o establish a reputation for old Boxwood Hall in athletics. At Boxwood Hall the three had lots of fun, as well as doing good work in th

ves fighting Germany. What happened to them is set forth in the book immediately preceding this, called "The Motor Boys on the Firing Line." More than the

ys, but he obtained much information by going with them, not to mention many valuable, if not always pleasant specimens. For

ng ladies-Dorothy Gibbs and Gladys Petersen-nieces of Professor Petersen's, and

ates. He also got the pictures he wanted, and he secured for himself a[14] large sum of money. This money had been lef

urned his attention to shipping back the moving and other pictures he had made of the insects. The boys had lost sight of him in the confusion of the preparations for sailing for home. Professo

eeking to learn the cause of the trouble, to find out why they should be going back to France when they hoped they had left it for g

d to Bob, as they retained their places near the crowded rail close[15] to

you think so

colonel telling the major

about it, even if he doesn't tell our colonel right away. You see the ship captain is in full authority, once the vessel

aking," added N

oughnut that he knows what's up, even if he hasn't told any of the military crowd, which includes us-ahem!" and Bob swelled

thing our colonel can

Yes, you let Jerry-boy alone, and he'll come home with the bacon. And, speaking of bacon, I wish[16] I had some right now, with some fresh eggs

hu

iving Bob a th

" indignantly deman

n't we got troubles enough without that? But here c

nal from his eyes-a signal they well knew how to interpret, Ned and Bob moved to one sid

tion farther up the deck, and in the rush that followed there wa

Jerry looked first at him and th

e hull is as sou

a mine or a torp

accident[17] to the machinery, and we'

laimed Ned. "Then why, in the name of An

m what I heard, the accident was a pre

" exclaimed

ve a word alone with you. There's a rumor that some revengeful German may hav

through the ship and again the vessel