CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Uncle Sam Gets First Call | [5] |
| II. | The Dreadnought Boys on Deck | [17] |
| III. | The Work of a Dastard | [31] |
| IV. | Anderson Dines on Mud | [49] |
| V. | Like Thieves in the Night | [66] |
| VI. | There’s Many a Slip | [78] |
| VII. | “I Name You ‘Lockyer’” | [89] |
| VIII. | To the Uttermost Parts of the Sea | [105] |
| IX. | Schooner, Ahoy! | [121] |
| X. | Fighting Sound Pirates | [134] |
| XI. | Channing Lockyer Files a Message | [143] |
| XII. | Technically Torpedoed! | [152] |
| XIII. | A Messenger from the Deep | [163] |
| XIV. | A “Big League” Reported | [175] |
| XV. | Some Rascals at Work | [192] |
| XVI. | Into the Thick of It | [201] |
| XVII. | A Surprise Party with a Vengeance | [213] |
| XVIII. | “Safe as in a Steel-lined Vault” | [224] |
| XIX. | Ned is Astonished | [236] |
| XX. | Tom’s Very Thick Fog | [248] |
| XXI. | The Shipwrecked Men—and a Box | [258] |
| XXII. | An Infernal Machine | [275] |
| XXIII. | The Grim Visage of Danger | [288] |
| XXIV. | Mutiny on the High Seas | [303] |
| XXV. | Mr. Lockyer Captures a Prize | [311] |
The Dreadnought Boys On a
Submarine.
CHAPTER I.
UNCLE SAM GETS FIRST CALL.
“So your final answer is no?”
“Yes. And with a big N, Mr. Ferriss. I have put my best work of head and hand into the Lockyer submarine, and Uncle Sam gets first call on her services.”
“You remind me of a copy book with your sentimental morality,” sneered Jasper Ferriss, with the bitter inflection of a man who has fought a losing fight and knows it.