The Boys' Big Game Series
The PIRATE SHARK
ELLIOTT WHITNEY
Illustrated by Fred J. Arting
COPYRIGHT, 1914 by THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.
Then, without warning, the lines shot up and curled about the landing—cut short and clean.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. "What's Tringanu?"
CHAPTER II. Jerry Smith, Quartermaster
CHAPTER III. Off for Tringanu
CHAPTER IV. The Pirate Shark
CHAPTER V. What Happened at Honolulu
CHAPTER VI. The Far Seas
CHAPTER VII. "Where's Peters?"
CHAPTER VIII. Kuala Besut
CHAPTER IX. The Black Fin
CHAPTER X. Off for Tigers
CHAPTER XI. The Storm Breaks
CHAPTER XII. The Elephant Gun
CHAPTER XIII. Recapture
CHAPTER XIV. A Truce
CHAPTER XV. Mart Goes Down
CHAPTER XVI. The Battle
CHAPTER XVII. The Mystery o' the Sea
The Pirate Shark
CHAPTER I
"WHAT'S TRINGANU?"
"I don't care what your orders are. Cap'n Hollinger sent for me, and I'mgoing aboard or I'll know the reason why!"
"Well, ain't you just heard the reason why, son? He ain't here, andorders is orders. There ain't no one comin' aboard the Seamew, that'sall. Nothin' was said about any Mart Judson, kid."
"Then I guess your ears need tuning up. I'm comin' aboard, see?"
"Ye'll go overboard then. Well, if the kid ain't goin' to walk right upto me! Look out there, kid—get off that gangplank in a hurry!"
Trouble was in the air. At the rail of the trim yacht Seamew loungedSwanson, her burly first officer, pipe in mouth. He was evidently angry,for his heavy features were dark and lowering and his deep-set blue eyesglittered ominously. But the boy who faced him from the wharf was noless stirred up.
Mart Judson looked a good deal more than his seventeen years, for he hadworked his own way in the world and his face had a serious air ofresponsibility. He wore a smudgy mechanic's cap and greasy overalls, andfrom his keen gray eyes, determined mouth and chin, and straight blackhair, an observer might have deduced that he could be a hard worker anda stubborn fighter if need were.
Yet it was small wonder that Swanson had laughed at him. A boy mechanicasking for Stephen Hollinger persona