"You bet," answered Sam Hickey. "Got any real food aboard? I'm half starved. No more French biscuit diet for mine!"
CHAPTER VIII
HIS FIRST COMMAND
"The captain wishes to see you, sir," said an orderly, approaching Dan.
"I am in shore clothes, orderly."
"The captain knows that. You are to come at once."
Dan hurried below, leaving Sam to tell the admiring sailors of the experiences through which they had passed in Paris.
"Well, my lad," greeted the captain, with a laugh, "you are back, I see."
"Yes, sir."