show you more."

"This is my friend, Mr. Graham," continued the newspaper man. "Graham
is the Washington correspondent for my paper, so of course he has heard
of your boats before."

"If you had been aboard," smiled Jack, "you might have seen something in
the way of a little news happening."

"What was that?"

"Why, we found a new Japanese steward, whom we had engaged, absorbed in
his study of some of our mechanisms. So we had to induce him to quit
our service and go back to shore again."

"A spy, eh?" smiled Graham. "There are many of them about. Wherever
there is anything connected with our national defense the spies of
Europe are sure to flock, until they have learned all they want to know.
And I suspect that they rarely fail, in the end. You were fortunate
to catch your Japanese at his tricks at so early a stage in the game."

"I wish all these spies could be herded together and hanged!" muttered
Captain Jack, in honest indignation.

"Do you?" asked Graham, looking at the boy, with a queer smile.

"Can you doubt it?" challenged Jack.

Graham was silent for a few moments, puffing at his cigar. Then,
speaking very slowly, he went on: