The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers

the man of action that Jac

n," continued the captain, "you point that gun aft toward the heavens and you fir

ound. His third office

a

operator to pick up the cruiser Pioneer. You tell him I said

away to obe

ached Capta

ny assistance,

"Yes. You stand at the hatchway there and don't you let either

ent to

was other than a peaceful vessel. She had, so far as Captain Stone

te is going to blow me up without warning, or whether that wirel

rom the gun aft to take the bridge

om the ship ahe

as the opera

hat 'click-cl

o pick up the

an't you

, s

lieved the first officer and ordered him back to the gun aft.

if she's around here," sa

poke now, and then

ching vessel, followed by a heavy boom. A solid shot pa

Stoneman again. "Signa

ford to di

and the Algonquin a few mo

bled Captain Stoneman. "Come on

uch the strange vessel proved to be.

neman motio

w," he said quietly, "and Mr. Br

s side, all passengers and members of the cr

r gun?"

as the quiet re

about your lit

and put it in the left-hand button hole

age?" demanded Mrs. Wheaton, as s

re prisoners of the G

an, who overhe

the woman. "I heard

you hit a

in. "We fired those guns to notify the

ou shoot at her?" d

ke an angry retort, but restrain

t scraped alongs

aid a voice in English, thoug

d ominously, but he ord

naval officer appeared

n other figures. The of

nem

mander of this v

the reply. "

vil tongue in your he

nation, and the na

led the captain, answerin

one of his men. "Below with you," he said. "Take three men and

t below, followed by se

r turned again to

heaton and her daughter, "will be prisoners aboard the Vaterl

n Stoneman briefly. "

nd what t

e German, "or I shall h

gged his shoulders, b

ed to notice that Jack and Frank were not members

assengers?

ir," sa

le emblem on Jack's coat. He glanced at Frank and saw one t

get that?" he

it but in one place

German," sai

Jack, "but my ancestors were. I am what some

German officer. "But w

long story and one that I am com

n officer

" he asked at lengt

" sai

ll realize that I must be carefu

he lads' clot

me," he said a

g transferred to the Vaterland. Jack and Fran

ander, Frank saw the disgust in the eyes of Elizabeth Wheaton as he passed her. It was plai

ad, as he walked along

rp questions which apparently satisfied h

t land you y

little time. We do not need to reach New York until two days before the me

aptain. "I'll set you ashore on the co

" said

accompany me on deck, you shall see the

tain on deck. The latter

ll set?"

osion should occur

eyes to the aba

rom the doomed vessel. She seemed to leap high in the sky, then se

ain Koenig!" said Jack to him