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

astle, save the walls, and some badl

sted Jack. "I have, an idea that, in Europe, a castle only thre

Europe there would be a feeling of veneration for the old that would lead the peop

ry, Mademoiselle?" asked Jack

, Mr.

guess that you

name of Yankee, then.

passed them at that moment, a

eon. Legend tells us that some forty Spanish pirates were once confined there, fo

k, interestedly. "A real, old dun

y afflicts me with a

hrugging he

like to have just a glim

am not tiring you o

then," replied the young wom

th Mlle. Nadiboff

cap, stepped off rapidly toward

y leading below. At the head of the stairs two youngish m

aw you, yesterday, only for a moment at the rail of the gunboat. My name is H

" Jack replied, "and sorry th

er man. "Graham is the Washington correspondent for my

k, "you might have seen something in

was

absorbed in his study of some of our mechanisms. So we had t

efense the spies of Europe are sure to flock, until they have learned all they want to know. And I suspect that the

could be herded togeth

, in honest

m, looking at the boy

bt it?" chal

nts, puffing at his cigar. Then,

uch offended if I offered you some informat

l as that?" asked Jack, gazing at the Wash

respondent, "Benson, I've been stationed at the national capital for eight years, now. I meet all kinds of people, and I

he life of a Washington correspondent must b

an has been in Washington a while he begins to have people pointed out to him who are either known or believed to be in the

I suppose there are some very clever men

. Graham. "Men, perhaps, direct them, but the women spies, when the

ime, at one of these clever women sp

t. "I hope you won't be offended, Benson, but I understand you have a

k, guessing instantly what

when I first saw her, eight years ago, sh

t have been about thirteen years old. Do

wenty-one years old. I am aware that she looks hardly older to-day. When I saw y

to himself. "Then I can understand why she seemed so

You happen to command a type of submarine torpedo boat in which all the world is at present much interested. By

respondent gave a descr

to ex

s M. Lemair

. Graham. "You've fallen into the hands of a pair of

ng as he thought of the pair. "But there's one thing that puzzles me. Mlle. Nadiboff is a

spondent. "They work for whichever government will pay them

ot, then," grunted

at the dungeon underground. While they were examining

pair seen you, Mr.

I'm not stopping at

will suspect that I've

ith a sho

you sa

hat I may attempt to pay that pair back in their own coin-someho

e as a newspaper write

p out of

y. "I don't know either Mlle. Nadiboff or her companion; and, beside

three had returne

ell go along with him. You may get a good look at the Nadiboff woman. You, too, may think her very youn

ht amid the ruins. Hennessy walked with Jack

plans for teaching some one a le