s."

"I shall be cautious. My scheme will be to try and lure the Spaniards
out of port."

"Ha! Ha! Try, by all means, but the fish won't always bite."

"You can do something for me."

"What?"

"Spare me twenty men. That is, if you're not short-handed. I am."

"I can lend you twenty, but they won't like it at all, for they're all
spoiling for a fight with this Spaniard, and they want to be here when
the fun begins."

"But I must have them."

"Very well. Mr. Robson!"

"Yes, sir."

"Twenty men wanted for the Nashville. We can spare them, and Captain
Long is short-handed."

"Now," laughed Captain Long, "give me a fair selection, Mr. Robson. No
cripple, mind."

"All our men are up to the mark."

"Good! The sooner you can send them aboard the better, for I want to
start."

Lieutenant Robson lost no time. He had twenty men paraded on deck.
Amongst them happened to be Young Glory and Dan Daly.

Lieutenant Robson passed his eye along them.

"If he doesn't like them," he said to himself, "he's hard to please."

In truth he would be, for a finer body of men never stepped the deck of
a ship.

"What's up?" whispered one of the men.

"Shure, it's some fightin' for us!"

"Hope so, Dan."

"My men," said Lieutenant Robson, "the duty you are to be placed on, is
not given to you because you have displeased the captain. On the
contrary. But someone has to do it, and you have been chosen."

The men's faces fell at this speech.

"Yes, you are lent to the Nashville. You will go aboard at once, and my
last word is--but I know it's unnecessary--that you will show your new
skipper what the men of the Brooklyn can do."

The men were instantly dismissed. It took them a few minutes to collect
their belongings, during which they received much sympathy from their
comrades.

"You'll miss this fight, Young Glory."

"Don't talk about it," replied Young Glory, hotly. "It's enough to send
a man crazy!"

"Shure, it's like desertin', I feel!"

"Do. There's no one to stop you, Dan, and it's very easy. You have only
to step over the ship's sides into the mouth of the shark who's waiting
there for you."

But Dan was too mad to reply.

He and his comrades very soon found themselves on the Nashville.

The first person they met aboard was Captain Long, whom they had not
seen when he paid his visit to Captain Miles on the Brooklyn.

"Young Glory and Dan Daly!" cried Captain Long. "Well, this is a
surprise. I can't comp