The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep

ou were last night," murmure

re, on social pleasure

and duty must go ahea

Captain, I came away from the shore before going through the ceremony of breakfast. Do you mean to say, Captain Ben

hat my instructions are what they are I feel wicked as I look at your distress, but it is simp

have it made perfectly plain to every onlooker that I a

Jack. "As welcome as I am permitted to make anyone.

e there was an almost tearful look in her pretty eyes, "some one who can change the or

ved hands rested on hi

l inwardly at odds with himself, thought

Nadiboff. But won't you understand t

, resentfully, though gent

t you?" asked Jack, holdi

he replied, a bit distantly. Then she turned to Williamson as her boat

ter he had seen her safe aboard the rowboat. As the harbor craft veered off, Captain Jack

to understand why we must be so secret aboard a submarine craft that all the n

tand, and how much she had hoped to learn through appealing to his interest i

of last night was rathe

Hast

her mighty shabbily," Jack responde

murmured Hal. "Just because a girl is pleasant-and pretty

ame strain, yet he couldn't wholly get over the noti

any more, will you, sir?"

turning the salute. "Very likely Mr. Hasti

had gone below Eph Some

ing that Kimono

laughed Ca

to me," sighed Eph. "

names sou

"don't, hurt the poor fellow's

y n

se are a proud an

se the

what 'Kimono'

en a guilty

ese name for a

"I shall surely have t

call his t

spelled it. Eph wrote the name

nt to hurt the feelings of a sensitive little fellow. It would be a

genuine enjoyment. "Eph! Eph! Don

lking about?" qu

at any time, Of trying

at that light colored little chocolate drop, do yo

appened," grinned Jack. "Eph, did you

Somers. "Slang name for someth

that's it's a mighty sudden system, too. It hits like lightning. When the smoke clears away

ko could do that?" Eph

me such funny things wh

Jack. "But at least

with a fellow much smaller than himself. In the first place, the carroty-haired boy wasn't quarrelsome, unless actually

pped through into the conning tower;

t the young submarine commander came upon the new steward most

outed the young captain, bes

d the gauge from the midships submergence apparatus, and was now dissect

calmly about, holding up the gauge. The smile on

he murmured. "What for

ing the detected one. "It's a barometer,

remarked the Japanes

rstand. First of all, put t

so, then made

ck Benson, "take ca

ere, Captain?" aske

one anything else on board. If you haven't, you c

anded Kamanako, a look of offense beginn

hat I've found you spying into our mechanisms here. Now, a spy is

ly name like that?" cried K

on deck. Do you hear me?

ase myself about when

f up to his full though

patience rapidly oozing now. He started toward the Japanese, just as

ated the carroty-topped boy.

eck quietly and in an

e glitter in his

," retorted Kama

t the warning he had given Eph, an

go-" beg

to seize Kamanako something happened. Exactly what it was the young submarine captain never

, darting down the stairs.

eady and

ng his hands on his knees, after the manne

feet hooked itself behind Eph's advanced left ankle, the other foot pressing against the knee of the same leg.

he had fallen and risen in the same movement. There was

ne room opened swift

st, took in the whole s

ok when his fist landed

oung Japanese through th

mself blinking at the muzzle of a revolver