COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS
I.[The Boys Make a Bargain]
II.[Outward Bound]
III.[There She Blows!]
IV.[A Narrow Escape]
V.[Strange Visitors]
VI.[An Island Quite Out of the World]
VII.[How Cap’n Pem Lost His Leg]
VIII.[Elephant Island]
IX.[Spinning Yarns]
X.[Lost]
XI.[A Strange Message]
XII.[The Raiders]
XIII.[Homeward Bound]
XIV.[The Boys Make a Discovery]

THE DEEP SEA HUNTERS

CHAPTER I
THE BOYS MAKE A BARGAIN

“Oh, Tom!” cried Jim Lathrop, as he dashed into his chum’s den, “what do you think? They’re fitting the Hector out for a cruise!”

“Come on, I don’t believe it. You can’t fool me that way,” replied Tom, tossing aside his book. “What’s the joke? Why the old Hector wouldn’t float—she’s had grass growing out of her seams for years.”

“Honest, they are, though,” asserted Jim. “If you don’t believe it come along and see.”

Grabbing his cap, Tom hurried out with his friend, and the two boys ran down the shady, sleepy streets of old Fair Haven towards the water front.