The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters

es up. It boasted a bay full of shoals and tricky channels and a

couts of the Blue squadron as was possible. Miller's Haven was a sleepy spot,-little more than a fishing village, in truth,-and nobody in the place was likely to

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ies. Her latest work, before being told off as a sco

was swift and powerful and just the craft for the work in which she was to be employed during the maneuvers. Her speed had been shown in several chases

ided Ned as they stood on the wind

nd a brisk wind, salt-laden and delightful to the boys'

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t Ensign Summerville

boat and take us out and intr

y, this thing of being a real, full-fledged offic

d Ned. "If we can carry out the work cut out for us in good sh

he ladder down," mumble

ntion on the single street that Miller's Haven boasted. True, one or two passers-by look

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dejected-looking citizen with a drooping mustache, a drooping manner, drooping gra

ted Ned, "but we can get a room here that w

t do you want a room for? I t

d not be the correct thing to board our new command

r swords?" inquired Her

ers must wear their swords under certain conditions, such as tak

s I don't tumble over tha

officer of mine," laughed Ned. "But, seriously, Herc, I want

word,-than I am! I'll be all right. Don't you worry about me, Mister Lieu

d good-naturedly, when Herc cut

here! Righ

me and the drooping eyes of the landlord, as Ned had rightly conjectured[P

g at us disrespectfully. I've a good

led to the Seneca, which I think probable, he'

ike to make him salut

ddenly Herc's feet flew up and out behind him. In his new dignity he had been holding his head

fect. Plump! came down his not over-light form right on top of the ascending Rankin. Togeth

! I'll fix you for it!"

" retaliated Herc, as the two rolled on the

whom he had conceived an intense disli

they clinched and tumbled about at the foot of the steps, Rankin

kettle of fish!" exclai

h a scene at all costs. It was really too bad that their arrival in

no one was in sight. He would not, for the world, have had anyo

ried, thoroughly angry. "Sto

e, the noise of their thumps and pantings rising above Ned's voice. Flushed w

light leading to the street in one jum

ulated. "What sort of a way do you con