The Submarine Boys on Duty / Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat

ipple to show that anything unusual had happened. True, Jacob Farnum arrived at the shed earlier than

gleaming look in his eyes, showed his he

g, Mr. Farnu

answered the yard's ow

iral staircase, looki

n the ex-foreman. "What's the matte

eys in to Mr. Partridge you must have taken an impression of one of them

to answer, though a look of guilty alarm crept into his face. All of the

ere last night?" deman

any false key to g

ou wrote a note to me that, if I'd come around here this mor

ver at the penitentiary. Owen, you did come here last night. You scaled the fence

held out the false key

k to damage a sea-valve forward on this craft. The valve shows

, all his craft. Instead of looking fri

such a thing?" h

saw you at your ras

the ex-foreman. "

es

oath, and you'll make a huge mistake if you

ampered with a sea-valve last night?" insisted th

ing breath," asserted th

those ly

inquired Mr. Farnum, passing th

n as wide as it was possible for them to do. A sickly, greenish pallor crept into

g voice. "Moreover, it shows you right at one of the sea-valves, and in the very act of tapping

as before the print to small bits. "That isn't a photograph of me

"As for the boys, maybe you don't like them, nor they you. They've reason enough for not

hat flash-" be

antly, biting h

Mr. Farnum, triumphantly. "As for the print you've just torn up, Owen, it doesn't make any difference. There are other copies of it. Now,

up the spiral st

be taken

the fellow, but Mr. Farnum called them back. Josh Owen got do

nd Dunhaven after this. If he is, I can quickly enough put the

his face when he saw that photograph," laughed Mr. Pol

tch's family," sighed

y, and stays away from

n opportunity f

ay of the work. On the morrow Dunhaven was to be more or less alive, for the "Pollard" was to be launched then. Many visitors, including a swarm of newspaper men, were

s, inventor, the foreman and the others went all over the submarine marine craft,

shed," cried David

a single chance to-night. Now, men, all be here at seven in the morning, ready for work. The launching is to be at ten o'clock, but at the last moment we may find that somet

nded each a crisp ten-dollar banknote.

r, long enough to earn this p

"But think of what you did last night. By the way, Benso

youngsters followed th

accompan

l appearance and the impression you both made. At the same time Pollard was careful to write to the references you gave in your home town. This noon he rec

red in that way," Jack replied, his fa

nds, especially those with families, say very frankly that their taste doesn't run to going down in diving boats, on account of the possible chance that

, gentlemen!" cried Jack

e us half the delight,"

d Pollard nodded. "But, of course, you're not blind to the fact that, even

," retorted Jack, coolly, "in

e to the danger, but n

submarine boat line," declared

ing back into his matter-of-fact tone, and mopping his face, for the July afternoon was exceedingly hot. "By the way, boys, ho

d," replied Jack,

e so good, I can give you a chance to try

in the town where we come fr

little boat we built him here. Forrester was always considered a safe man, but for some reason he has let this bill run. If you care to, you may take the bill and drive over to se

llars in an evening looked extremely a