Two Boys of the Battleship; Or, For the Honor of Uncle Sam

Frank Arden was so excited when he saw, caught by the binding ropes, on the great warship's anchor, the mysterious box that might mean so much to him and his brother and uncle,...

"We must get it started again!" exclaimed his brother, as he sprang to the motor. But revolve the fly-wheel as he did the craft remained still, save for the motion imparted to i...

Great searchlights from the battleship illuminated a scene that was one of great activity. Boats were pulling away from the side of the _Georgetown_, boats filled with eager, ex...

Such eager hope shone on the faces of Frank and Ned Arden on hearing the news that the battleship was ordered to South America, that the sailor who had given them the informatio...

The great ship trembled with the vibration of the immense gun, and when the smoke had cleared away and the gases been blown from the cannon by the compressed air, Ned looked out...

Mr. Arden ceased his pacing up and down the library, and taking up a bundle of papers from a table--papers that seemed fairly to bristle with red seals--he sat down in an easy c...

"Yes, Ned, and it remains to be seen what we can do--I mean about our business and uncle's. As for quelling any trouble here, there doesn't seem to be any."

There was a surge of green, foam-capped water, which looked as if it would engulf and overwhelm the dory motor boat, in which crouched two youths, one about eighteen, and the ot...

These were only a few of the comments and exclamations that came from Frank, Ned and their shipmates as they boarded the _Georgetown_, on which they were shortly to make a cruis...

"I mean, sir," replied Frank, "that the ropes of my brother's hammock were partly cut through, so that when his weight came on them they gave way. That is how it happened."

Just what the orders were that the commander of the _Georgetown_ had received at Havana was known only to himself and to his immediate official family. They were not made public...

With one last and lingering look at the battleship, which was now almost lost to sight in the spray and spume of the sea and the mist of driving rain, Ned crouched down in the d...

Whether he actually would or not, he never stopped to consider. Shooting at a man in the open that way, when the heat of battle has passed, is a hard matter. Frank could not dec...

This talk took place about four months after the arrival of our heroes at the training station. Those four months were so crowded with work, play, incidents, and a few accidents...

Frank and Ned were greatly surprised at the unexpected news given them by Mr. Kennedy, the coffee merchant. For a while they did not know what to say, nor what questions to ask...

"Now for that big fish of yours--where is it?" asked Frank of his brother, as they prepared to enter the circular building which forms one of the finest educational features of...

This time it was Frank's turn to stare at his brother as Ned had stared at him when Frank announced that they had been robbed. And as Ned had done, so did Frank, for the moment...

"Over this way," directed the petty officer as he led the squad of recruits into the well-kept grounds, Ned and Frank following the others, and, like them, looking curiously about.

Target practice with our big guns aboard a battleship is rather an important occasion, as it is not often done. It is too expensive to fire away hundreds of pounds of powder and...

For a moment Ned stood staring at his brother as if he could not believe the words he heard. He remained holding the dangling chain, to which, only a short time before, his dead...

"Don't you fool yourself, son, and let that idea get away with you," came from an older blue-jacket. "A little craft like that may have a torpedo tube or two concealed about her...

With the valises in their possession our two boys of the battleship, as I shall begin to call them, felt a little less disheartened than at any time since the robbery. At least...

Events now began to move rapidly for our two heroes, thus left to their own resources, and at an age when they were not very well fitted to battle with the world. And they were...

Gradually, from the very much upset housekeeper and from the servants, Ned and Frank obtained an account of what had happened. Their uncle, who had been busily engaged in the in...

Ned, who, with horror-stricken eyes, had seen his brother fall, was relieved to see him slowly get up and help lift Hank to a more comfortable position. From the interior of the...