| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | "Keep Out" | [11] |
| II. | Keep In | [31] |
| III. | Off Santiago | [48] |
| IV. | The Merrimac | [66] |
| V. | The Chase | [86] |
| VI. | Teddy's Daddy | [103] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Maria Teresa in Flames | [Frontispiece] |
| At the Gateway | [12] |
| Talking with the Longshoreman | [17] |
| The Merrimac | [22] |
| Teddy Comes on Board the Merrimac | [27] |
| Setting the Hiding-place in Order | [34] |
| Teddy Discloses Himself | [41] |
| The Fleet | [51] |
| "'This 'Ere Steamer Is Goin' to Be Sunk'" | [57] |
| The Texas | [63] |
| Sailors from the Texas | [68] |
| Keeping Watch of the Brooklyn | [73] |
| The Sinking of the Merrimac | [79] |
| The Merrimac | [83] |
| Teddy Tries to Assist the Wounded Sailor | [90] |
| The Texas in the Fight | [99] |
OFF SANTIAGO WITH SAMPSON.
CHAPTER I.
"KEEP OUT."
It was a small but by no means feeble-looking boy who stood in front of a driveway disclosed by the opening of huge gates which, until they had been swung inward, appeared to have been a portion of the high fence of boards.
There was seemingly no inducement for a boy to linger in this vicinity, unless, indeed, it might have been the sign posted either side the gate, on which was painted in letters rendered conspicuous because of the vivid colouring, the forbidding words, "Keep Out."
"I'll not keep out 'less I'm minded to, an' him as can hold me this side the fence needs to be spry on his feet," the small boy said, half to himself, and with a gesture of defiance which told he had not been accustomed to obeying commands that might be evaded.