which usually followed the lighting of it. The lads were familiar with many kind of fuses, from the ordinary time one, the most common form of which is the fi

nderstood at once what he meant. But Jerry perhaps because he did not want to caus

That's cigar sm

d. "Must be one[53] of the substitute tobacco ones the Germans had to use. Cigar!

agreed Bob. "And did

ed Jerry. "He evidently didn't want to

o be an alarmist, but after all that has passed, and smelling what I be

having something to do with this man, and I'm not going to risk it again. He, too, seems to have

e he's been up to some trick her

ere was a commotion in that part of the ship given over to hospital

5

ked Bob, looking

d Jerry. "It may be Meldon, the fellow who attacked you in a n

"Sometimes when they get to raving that way, as they often do, they're stronger

good idea,"

the strange man they had met, and the odd manner in which he had acted

me delirious and were fighting their nurses. And as it happened, there

in subduing them was greatly appreciated by the nurses. In fact, the help was absolutely necessary, for one of the nurses was in[55] danger of bodily harm from t

or Boys soon managed to subdue without the use of undue force th

e had come in and had been told of what had happened. "You help

ared Jerry. "We just heard the r

the attack of the crazed soldier. "I shall never forget it! I went through a good part of the war,

the main deck again. "We started off with a bad omen-putting back to port; Bob has to fight[

w down in the passage?" asked Ned, "and that w

out, to give a false alarm. Suppose we go to the ship captain, or our captain, whi

individual with something bla

ttes he was taking to some of th

hen he saw us,

we had before," agreed Jerry.

r smoke-the same as when a bomb

f a bad, cheap cigar. That's no evidence, so far. If we went

e, even le cochon.[57] And you can be pretty sure he didn't get on board th

ould like to know who that fellow is, what his game is, and why

"But to get at them I don't just feel like going to the Sherman's ca

n't suppose we can do that. But

when we came back through the passage

smelled mighty q

al rooms," suggested Jerry. "The o

" agreed Ned. "But I'm go

. "And now let's get in line for the semi-

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in with me, I se

as the crowded condition of the transport would permit. And it was while makin

aren't the thr

y beheld a youth whom they had lear

't old Hen Wilso

t Hen!" a

blow in from?

our met in a jolly circle. "That's what I was just

s craft that we may meet a lot more friends we knew in the

of the old gang that helped clean up that machine-gun

. And so some of those fellows

under the circumstances-and Ned, Bob, and Jerry were glad that they had found old fri

ough the whole ship. Dim lights that were burning near the sleeping quarters went out suddenly, and Jerry, straining

t? What's

moment Bob b

omething hit us! If the whole bottom is

e of confusion and almos