Through this Sam Truax thrust his head, peering up

the young submarine captain, bearing him through the aperture and dropping him on t

ing over his young victim, regarding him critically. "There wasn't steam enough in th

ocket, sprinkling some of the contents over Jack's uniform coa

uttered Truax under his breath. "If you come to and get back to the yard without help, you'll walk unsteadily an

f into the might, carrying the bag of sand under his over coat. At one point he paused long enough to empty the sand from t

left. Then he began to stir, and groan. Then he op

at's the odor? Liquor!

my h

und himself weak and tormented by the pain in his head, Benson managed to feel his way along the fence

Farnum," had at last made up their minds to go back and look for their missing leader. They came

"Gracious! He acts queerly. I wonder if anyth

ced across

earth's the matter?" demand

k Benson, speaking rather thickly, for he

Hal in Eph's ear. "Don't torment him with ques

zzy comrade out to the sidewalk a man came by with a swi

What on earth

he submarine work at the yard, and

d chap feels like telli

th a so

is breath. "What does it mean? Benson never

himself," retorte

d Grant Andrews. "But what

" muttered Hal, bitterly. "But I don't believe Jack fe

dazed to feel like talking. He couldn't collect his ideas clearly. The

hen I'll get a doctor. We don't want much noise about this, or folks will be telling all sorts of yarns again

urned the nearest corner and came swiftly toward them. In another instant it stopped

?" called the yard's o

t has happe

holding him, in fact. Jacob Farnum leaped from his

the naval officer, the o

ed Farnum, turning upon

been drinking

yhew, apologetically. "You know your y

omeone had assaulted the lad, laid him out, and then sprinkled him. It's a wasted t

Mayhew had known of too many cases of naval apprentices ruined through weak indulgence in liquor. Indeed, he had even known of rare instances in which cadets had been di

hey carried him to Mr. Farnum's office at the yard, Grant Andrews then going in the car after a doctor, while the othe

e physician's verdict. "No bones of the skull are broken. The odor of

Jacob Farnum, crisply. "Will Bens

ctor. "But there ought to b

, and get a man nurse

the young man be move

rnu

y waited until the nurse arrived, when Jack

r. Farnum and the Dunhaven doctor were aboard early to l

clock that morning, the two submarine torpedo boats slipped their mo

motion of the sea aw