CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
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.