Category: Historical Novels
“And yonder’s a snap-dragon; and that’s a buttercup. That is feverfew growing over there; and there’s foxglove right there in that swampy place. Those are cowslip blossoms--the English cowslip is different from ours.”
“And yonder’s a snap-dragon; and that’s a buttercup. That is feverfew growing over there; and there’s foxglove right there in that swampy place. Those are cowslip blossoms--the...
2. CHAPTER II--THE HUN IN HIS FURYWheeling up from behind them on the higher shoulder of the hill, an airplane spiraled into the upper ether, in an attempt to get above the huge machine that had, two minutes bef...
3. CHAPTER III--THE MISSING MANThe smoking ruins of the schoolhouse and its outbuildings were now visible. The five boys came to the edge of the crater which marked the effect of the explosion of the bomb fro...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE PAPER CHASEOnce again on the summit of the hill Whistler Morgan could overlook all the sloping pastureland bordering the pleasant road he and his friends had been strolling upon when the Z...
5. CHAPTER V--THE TRICKSTERBut Whistler Morgan, after his startled exclamation, burst through the bushes and hurried down the bank of the hollow. A figure lay at the bottom--a figure dressed in a blue smo...
6. CHAPTER VI--WORK AHEADWhen the four Navy Boys and their friends came over the summit of the hill behind the English seaport which the Zeppelin had so recently raided and where it had come to grief, t...
7. CHAPTER VII--ON THE GREY WATERSFor the most part the American destroyers on duty in British and French waters were doing patrol service, scouting over designated areas in quest of enemy submarines, meeting an...
8. CHAPTER VIII--THE YANKEE WAYThe sharp hull of the three hundred foot destroyer cut through rather than rode the waves. She was seaworthy enough, but in a cross sea like this, she rolled and dipped tremendo...
9. CHAPTER IX--“SCHMARDIEThe _Colodia_ was drifting more than a cable’s length from the wreck of the German airship that had fallen into the sea. Philip Morgan and George Belding were some minutes in dr...
10. CHAPTER X--THE TERROR OF THE SEASPhil Morgan, on thinking over the conversation with Franz Eberhardt, was not at all sure that he should have discussed the wreck of the other Zeppelin so freely with the prisone...
11. CHAPTER XI--ACTIONIf action was what George Belding craved, he was getting it. Everybody aboard the United States destroyer _Colodia_ was on the alert as the craft leaped ahead to full speed for...
12. CHAPTER XII--WIRELESS WHISPERSOn duty with the morning watch, just after sick call at half past eight, Phil Morgan and George Belding met right abaft the radio station. There was half an hour or so before th...
13. CHAPTER XIII--THE SUPER-SUBMERSIBLEThe boys from Seacove and George Belding--but especially the last and Phil Morgan--had a second topic of daily conversation quite as interesting, if not as exciting, as that of...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE MIRAGEPhil Morgan, coming up suddenly from the berth deck just as sweepers were piped at 5:20 in the morning, fairly overturned a smaller lad who had been straddling the top of the la...
15. CHAPTER XV--COMBING THE SEASuddenly the red edge of the sun appeared above the eastern sea line. He had not forgotten to rise! For an instant--the length of the intake of the breath the two astonished boy...
16. CHAPTER XVI--STATIONSSince sailing out of Brest and before receiving her special orders by wireless telegraph, the _Colodia_ had made no base port where the crew could receive either mail or cablegr...
17. CHAPTER XVII--THE SPITFIREThey passed no other ship, and after the breakdown of the _Western Star’s_ wireless, they got but vague whispers out of the air, and nothing at all about the huge German submari...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--“GHOST TALK” AGAINThe _Colodia_ was put about, and at reduced speed approached the spot where the submarine had gone down. There was very little wreckage on the surface of the ocean; but several...
19. CHAPTER XIX--A DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONHad George Belding not been such a stubborn fellow he never would have stuck to his opinion about the strange call received by the _Colodia’s_ radio men, by wireless telegraph....
20. CHAPTER XX--TOO LATE AGAINIf the Seacove boys, George Belding and the radio force, found an interest aside from the general object of the _Colodia’s_ cruise, the bulk of the crew were not so fortunate. T...
21. CHAPTER XXI--THE MYSTERY MESSAGEShe was completely wrecked at the stern, and it was probably true, as Ensign MacMasters had said, that her engines and boilers had been blown up. She lay helpless and sinking.
22. CHAPTER XXII--THE WIRELESS CALL FOR HELPHaving delivered the survivors of the _Susanne_ to the greater comforts of an Italian liner bound eastward, the _Colodia’s_ own course was set for the south and west. Her comman...
23. CHAPTER XXIII--THE SEA PIGEON IN SIGHTGeorge Belding was for running right off to the radio chief, Mr. Sparks, to ask another chance to listen in on the wireless for further messages from the _Redbird_. The supposit...
24. CHAPTER XXIV--THE BLIND CHASEAs for weather indications or the like, nobody thought of such things. And here suddenly appeared a phenomenon that bade fair to help the Germans and place the destroyer in a le...
25. CHAPTER XXV--A NEW CONVOYAt dawn, while a light fog still overspread the sea, the crash of distant guns was brought to the ears of the watch on duty. From what direction the reports came it was impossib...