"I'll chance it," he muttered. "It's my duty to try. I am under orders to stop them, and stop them I will!"
The Battleship Boy let go.
His body shot downward, striking the water with a splash that was heard far back on the quarter-deck.
CHAPTER XIII
THE BATTLE OF THE DINGHIES
"Man overboard, off the port boom!"
"Stand by the falls. Whaleboat number one!" cried the officer of the deck.
"What's this, what's this?" shouted the captain, running to the deck in his pajamas.
"Two men leaving ship in the port dinghy, sir," answered the officer of the deck.