The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer

BY CAPTAIN WILBUR LAWTON
Author of “The Boy Aviators Series,” “The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice,” etc. etc.
NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911, BY HURST & COMPANY


The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer
“Pardon me—but surely I am not mistaken,—you two young men are brave sailors on board the Beale ?”
“Hum; don’t know about the ‘brave sailor’ part of it,” smiled Ned Strong pleasantly, as the dark-skinned speaker halted him and his companion Herc Taylor in the shadow of the gray wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “We are on board the Beale , though, or will be shortly.”
The man who had addressed the two stalwart, sunburned young fellows wearing the natty uniform of Uncle Sam’s sea-fighters flourished his silver-headed cane as if in token of having attained an object.

“The Beale —the torpedo-boat destroyer?” he asked, as if he were anxious to make quite sure of his ground.