Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

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

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 other slightly older.

Chapters

25. CHAPTER XXV--CLEARED

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,...

24. CHAPTER XXIV--THE MISSING BOX

"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...

21. CHAPTER XXI--UNEXPECTED NEWS

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...

16. CHAPTER XVI--HEAVY SEAS

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...

19. CHAPTER XIX--ASHORE

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...

3. CHAPTER III--UNDER ARREST

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...

20. CHAPTER XX--THE RIOT

"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."

1. CHAPTER I--IN THE STORM

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...

12. CHAPTER XII--THE CUT ROPES

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...

13. CHAPTER XIII--TARGET PRACTICE

"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."

17. CHAPTER XVII--A CHASE

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...

2. CHAPTER II--POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS

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...

23. CHAPTER XXIII--OVERBOARD

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...

11. CHAPTER XI--"ALL ABOARD!

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...

22. CHAPTER XXII--THE PURSUIT

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...

6. CHAPTER VI--ROBBED

"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...

8. CHAPTER VIII--JOINING THE NAVY

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...

10. CHAPTER X--IN BARRACKS

"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.

14. CHAPTER XIV--A BRAVE ACT

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...

7. CHAPTER VII--"LETS ENLIST

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...

18. CHAPTER XVIII--BIG GUNS BOOM

"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...

9. CHAPTER IX--AT THE TRAINING STATION

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...

5. CHAPTER V--IN NEW YORK

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...

4. CHAPTER IV--SHIFTING FOR THEMSELVES

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...

15. CHAPTER XV--ORDERED SOUTH

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...