As they got up and left the shack, the sun was just setting.
“It’s time for ‘colors’,” said Tom, “will you give the command, sir?” and all stood at attention while Dick slowly lowered the flag.
The End
Transcriber’s Notes:
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
[p. 108]: Missing words were assumed to be as follows:
the (force the inner)
latch (a latch from)
into (out into the)
at (station at the)